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Why I Am Dissatisfied 



— BY 



REV ZEBEDEE GREEN 




Copyright 1923 

By ZEBEDEE GREEN 

Entered into the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress 

By Act of Congress 

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RZV ZEBEDEE GREEN 
I AM NOT SATISFIED 

This writing was done by the request of Honorable 
Georj^e A. Weston, President of Pittsburgh Division No. 61 
of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, by Rev- 
erend Zt'l)edee (Ireen, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 

in lin.'i, I could just write my name. Jesus said. "Seek 
ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness thereof 
and all these things shall be added unto thee. 



Not enjoyment, and not sorrow 
Is our destined end or way, 
But to act that each tomorrow 
Finds us farther than today. 
— Longfellow. 



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"Satisfaction leads to stagnation; 
stagnation to dctet ioration and deterioration 
to extinction. '" 

— B. S. Clark 



*' Among other things show yourselves 
to be dissatisfied. 

— Woodrow Wilson 



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I AM NOT SATISFIED 

I was born in the Southlands in 1882 on the 25th day of 
June. When I g-ot old enough to know and see things as 
othtTs. I confessed Jesus Christ. Since I have confessed 
Him. He has enabled me to see. know and understand more 
about doing things for Him and His people. 

As I .see the condition of my race, it makes me dissatis- 
fied. No. I am not satisfied and. if I say I am, I would not 
be telling the truth to my Heavenly Father, to myself, to 
my wife, to my mother, or to my race. I know that I am a 
Christian, but still I am not satisfied. 

God Him.self is not satisfied with the condition of things. 
He has created all men equal and that is one thing we as 
a race should look at, for we as a race do not c;ire for any- 
thing of our own, though still there aie a few of us who really 
want something. We care for it in a way. That is, if some- 
one gives us something, we are ready to receive it, but if 
we have to go through hardships to obtain it. then we do 
not want it. 

We say this is a white mun's country and a white man's 
government. It is. We say that we are ruled by his laws 
and government. We are. He beats us, he kills us, he 
works us. he lynches us, he burns us. and every time he gets 
in trouble, he makes us fight for him. We win the victory 
for him every time we fight and at the end we get nothing 
but the same old thing that we were getting before. Still 
ue s.iy we are in a free country and are free citizens of this 
country. I say, "We are not free citizens in this country 
for we were forced and brought to this country and s^ld like 
cows and horses." No citizenship papers were given to us 
at all and we did not ask for my. Why? We c::uldn't. We 
were slaves f(jr them vu(\ the only free thing that we had 
was to work to help them to build up their governmrnt. 

That is just a.s if I were helping another m:in Iniy a 
houst'. He h:is the papers made out in his name; I haven't 
any. W'e live in the same house, but he couM put me out 
any time he gets ready. That is how we stand in America. 
I noticed in the .speech of Lincoln at the close of the Civil 
War at ( ;ettysl)urg. Maryland. November 19. 18G:^. he said. 
"Fourscore and seven years ago. our forefather's brnu<xht 
forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty 
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created 
I'qual." In that speech the Negroes were said to be free. J 



say in part they are free and in part they are not. In the 
biggest part he is not free. I am not saying anything about 
Liberty at all, for there is a difference between Libsrty and 
Freedom. A man can be free from jail, or any place where 
he is bound, and still not be at Liberty to do what he wants 
to do. 

I heard the remarks of a man of my race who was in a 
parade on July 4, 1917. He said, "I now belong to the 
United States Army and I am going up against Germany. 
I don't mind fighting, I don't mind dying, but I hate to leave 
my wife." He received much applause from the other race 
and also from his own race. It didn't please mo at all. It put 
me to thinking and I was not satisfied. I went on a long 
time trying to find something to match what he had said. 
At last, I have found something to match him. 

I say, "I belong to the Universal Negro Improvement 
Association and Africa must be free. I don't mind fighting, 
I don't mind dying, for I am preparing a place for my wife 
and my race. I have no children of my own, but ray brother 
has some. When I say my brother, I rrean this Negro race 
of mine. When I look upon the faces of the boys and girls 
of my race, it brings much cheer to me because of their 
bright future. But when I stop and think, I wonder w^hat 
these children will have to use their bright future on. These 
children are looking for their fathers and mothers, yes, and 
to the race at large, to put something in their way that 
they may catch hold of it and make themselves better men 
and women. 

A lot of us who call ourselves men and women, aren't 
worth the clothes that we have on our backs. Say, men 
and women of my race, do you not know that these children 
are going to school every day to get knowledge? I know 
you will say, '\ves." What are they going to do with it after 
they get it? AH of them cannot preach the gospel, be sec- 
retaries, officers of the church, stenographers, typists, book- 
keepers, or clerks. We haven't enough business places to 
put them in. The one that has a business place, you're 
knocking him all the time. 

I am saying to you, "Let us stop and think over this 
great task that is now before us. Let us stop knocking and 
saying so much about what I am going to do. Let us work 
and bring things to pass. Do you ever stop to think of how 



vour children are taught and who is teaching them? How 
•vould you like for me to whip your child and teli you to 
keep your han.is off mine? Would that be fair, or would it 
not? Some of us Negroes do not want Negroes to teach 
our children, I ut. listen, when I get to the place that I do 
not want to be with my own race and don't want a Negro 
to teach me, I ought to die. 

And some of us use the phrase, "I am getting more like 
the white folks every day." If you only knew how that 
phrase sounds, you would stop using it. You never hear 
them say that they want to be like you. Now, if you say 
that you are more like Jesus, you would be doing the right 
ihing. That is what is the matter now. Too many v^hite 
things have been shown to us. So I want to see myself now 
because I love my color. 

Listen, good people, I am saying these things because 
it is the truth and it is right for me to say them, as a min- 
ister of the Gospel, and as a man who loves his race. For 
it is better i\v me to tell you now so that you may make 
a change, than to let you die in this world and leave it with 
a shame. For God has assigned me to this work and that 
I must do. so that when I go to make a report, it shall 
be true. These are some of the things that make me 
dissatisfied. 

Again, here is something else I look at. I work all 
the time and sometimes make two days in one and I can't 
get above meat, bread and house rent, sometimes my wife 
helps me, but still I can't get above meat, bread and house 
rent. Listen, good folks, there is something wrong some- 
where and badly wrong at that. We say we don't drink 
whiskey and only have one wife; no sweetheart. Do not 
eat fine food. U" not dress line and do not live in a fine 
house. Still wo work all the time and haven't got anything. 



There is something wrong. Yes, there is. Now, don't 
say the reason I havein't got anything is because I have 
been out of work; because when you were working it was 
the same. We cculd hardly make it from one pay to 
anoi-her then and pay days were only two weeks apart. Now, 
1 am not gouig to say anything about the money you were 
making. I am "showing you why it is I am dissatisfied. 
0-ur boys and girls are looking to you and me and what are 
we doing for them. Someone may say, "i haven't any 
chiluien". ' But i.hat doesn't excuse you, for you have a duty 
just like M\y other man. 

We have been singing this song, "You can have all the 
woiia, but give me uesus". 1 have Jesus now and i want 
some of ihe wona ior these childr&n. And we have been 
s.ymg, '"When I came into the woild I bioag-it nothing and, 
wiien I go out, I will leave nothing." Our trouble is, we 
do not want to leave anytning when we go, bui: the white 
n'an will i:ave something. Listen, men, it is time for us to 
move, for I hear a voice crying to the four corners of th3 
woria and we ought to run to the call. When I say men, I 
aon't mean some of them, but I mean ail of them, both men 
and v;cm£n. We, as a race, ought to answer this call and 
dc justice to ourselves and children. For, if we are ever 
going to be a race, now is the time. Somxe of us think that 
cliis is a joke, but I am saying that it is not a" joke. 

We want what is due us like other nations and we must 
havc it. For my part, my life belongs to it, for I expec'^ to 
be a man and pky a man's part on the ground whereon I 
stand. I am Vvrilling to put my strength to anything that 
will help me to be a man. 

Someone may want to know why I keep saying I am 
dissatisfied, and why I am talking as I am through this 
little pamphlet. Well, this is why. When I think of the 
South and see how they have mobbed, burned and killed my 
people, also 1:11';; d my cv/n blcod brother and th nk they are 
df^in-T rip-ht, I vnW sav to you that that is enough 'o make 
anyone dissaiisutd. That is the reason why I love the U N. 
I. A. and am giv'ng it my life, for we negroes do nothing 
here in ihe U. 3. A, to slop '.hese outrages. And in this 



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^reat World's War while our men were in France along sida 
of the whits men, as well as other nations, they v;ere still 
mobbing, burning and killing our people. In 1918, when the 
hardest of the struggle was on and our men were helping 
to make this country safe, the record that I had, show that 
there were 68 lynched, mobbed and burned. 

And nothing could be done until' this great man, Marcus 
Garvey, cams with thiS great movement. And I will say tnat 
this man is a man among men and I will go to his call at any 
time, for he has done more for this race in thiea years tiian 
we have done in 356 years. Not only the United States can 
see it, but the world can see it. I am willing to give honor 
to whom honor is due. The great men and the mighty men 
are standing off looking at him today. A lot of our people 
are standing up today saying, "I v/ill wait unlil I i^ee what 
he is going to do and how he is going to come out". And 
yet, they say Ihey are for the right thing and for the race. 
Well. I am sr.ying to all of thorn who are in that fix that 
it doesn't look to me as if you love the race or evcn yours:-lf. 
You just st;iy out there and knock and see how you will 
come out. If you think this movement is going down, you 
are wrong. And, if you tliink it is a dr* am, then you sleep 
on until you get through dreaming and then wake up and 
think. You will find out that it is not a dream, but real. 
And, if this gre?.t man dies, this m.ovement is going on. 
We have thous.inds and thousr.nds of great m.en who are 
in t'lo f vjr corners of the world who are r.b'e to see to it 
that this great work will still go on and, if this great man 
lives, I know that this great work will go on. 

Greater love hath no man than this, thnt a man l:iys down 
his life for his friends. John, 15th Chapter, 13th verse. 
These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, telling us to love 
ye one ano'hcr. This is one thing that we have got to c^me 
up t) and we are a long way from it. We love in a wiy, that 
is, when everything is g ;ing on all right pnd things are gong 
our way, but if trouble arise then our love is gone. 

No man wants to die for another man. He would 
rather go out and g.miblo and di? over live cents, or some- 
thing else that would not amount to a row of pins, than to 
(lie for a man who is in the right. The biggest thing wo 



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■do is to say we love and do another way. And still we are 
■going to Heaven. But Heaven is not down below, but above. 
Now, Mr. Marcus Garvey has done what Jesus said do. He 
is not only saying it, but he is proving it by doing it. Now, 
.'if I am lying, prove it to me that I am. The time has come 
now that this race has got to move from where it is and 
I am going to be at the moving. For I see it and am going 
after it. If I do net succeed, I will die trying. 

Say, women, I am not saying anything about you in this 
copy.but I have yours too, just as I have it for the men. So I 
will see you all later, but 1 m.usx say one thing to you, "You 
ought to drop your dresses in the right pliice and get out 
of the young girls' v/ay and get to work and make them 
competent for the future lac e. A nd your faces are white 
whe^n they ought to be black. So I am dissatisfied. 

We are looking now for men and women all ovei- the 

world. We are going to get this race and put it in its right 

place. The Lord's word is gone out and it will not return 

to Him void. I want to be satisfied, but I can't be. For 

when I look at the other nations and see that they have all 

of what it takes to make a nation and then look at my race 

?»nd see hov; we are fixed, it makes me more dissatisfied. 
The truth about it is, I don't like it. 

God has made me a man just as He has made othef 
men and made us a race just like other races. And these 
races will stick together and will not sell themselves to 
another race, but we won't stick together like that. All we 
care for is to get in a good little place to ourselves and the 
rest c?.n go and root like little pigs, or die poor. We don't 
look for a place any big-ger than one large enough for our- 
se'ives. We will say that we are for the race, but act in 
another way. I think we ought to change that now. Do 
more and say less; for we can do nothing in this world but 
make a living. Why is it that it can't be done in the right 
way? Let us make it up in our minds to do the right thing 
and make the race whrt H on-^iit to be. Don't be afraid that 
somecne will get more than you. 



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I am talking: because I love the race and it is my duty to 
do This is the commandment that was given by our 

Lord Jesus, that we should love one another. That is what 
we should do. I don't believe that the Lord is pleased over 
the condition of things and I know that I am not. I can't 
be until some change is made for the better. 

And here is another thing that gives ug a lot of troub-e. 
that is, we knov/ all and we do net want to follow anybody. 
Wh-^n we come into the possession of something and it will 
take someone cl^e to help us out, we Will say, "I know what 
to do", and then proceed to do it. .Then we go on with it 
until we can't go any farthar, then we will stop and g-it 
someone who does know and will give it to him, or her, and 
it would give thsm m.ore trouble than it would ba worth and 
they sometimes have to give it up. Then we would bs in 
a worse fix than v,e were in at first. We do not regard leader- 
ship. We follow the leaders whsnaver we want to and, 
when we get ready, we stop. This is where we get in bud. 

Do you Icnow that there are many people who are dsad 
who ou ght tn \e l iving? When they get ?.ick, they stay at 
home and try to doctor themselves until thsy are nearly 
dead, then go running to or send someone for a doctor. 
VVh^n he gots to *hem, he can't do any good and sometimes 
the patient dies before he gets there. When I ?e9 t'lese 
thing.-?, or hear them, they make me dissatisfied. We ought 
to be wil'ir"' to follow our leader now since we know that 
we are in trouble and have been for ys^.rs. Tho^e who sny 
"I know" hav*» ffcne on tryin? for years to get us out of 
trouble and nothing has been done yet. 

Clrod reorle, listen, 'et us stop and think over the con- 
dition of things ?nd go to those who know and let them 
help us out of it. I want this race cf mine to stop pnd r-id. 
and think over what I am talking fbout. If you dcn't know 
I will toll VDU that T pm a man Hke other m'^n. W'^en 1 
think over this, it makes me s^y. "I am not mi^^ch of a man." 
How c".n 1 1 o satisfied when I think of it. Yet if they tel! 
me what I have to do I will do it, just as if I were a child. 



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These children of ours are going to be abie to do just as 
other rac£s because we are going to make it possible. Why 
do you talk so much about the children, Mr. Green? I know 
you will ask this. 1 talk about them because they don't know 
so much. We have got to get them ready for the future race. 
We "old folks" know too much of that we should not know 
t.nd do not want to know that which we should know. There- 
fore, we can't do much with you, for some of us want the 
Lord to come down from Heaven and talk with us and put 
our hands on the things that ought to be done. 

We are like the Children of Israel. When Moses was 
leading them they said to him, "We are tired of hearing 
you. We want to taik with God for ourselves". That was 
as good as saying, "We know as much as you and you can 
tell us nothing". So Moses came to be dissatisfied and went 
and talked with God. His job was to take them to the land 
that God had told him to take them to. I am dissatisfied 
today for I hear someone crying saying, "Come on and let 
us go to the land that God has promised us and let us be a 
nation like other nations and be free." For this man is a 
Moses and we as a race need straightening out along all 
lines. Some of us do not like intelligence. In a way we 
like it and in a way we do not. We have it fixed so that 
when we don't want to go to intelligence we don't go, and 
when we get ready to go to it, we go. 

Pure intelligence means that you m.ust be intelligent at 
all times. That is why I like the Universal Negro Improve- 
ment Association, for it calls for intelligent people as well 
as the Bible does. 

But we will steal, rob, and take one another's lives and 
lead our neighbor's daughters astray; we will talk about 
each other without a cause and we are glad to see our neigh- 
bor's downfall and we will teil falsehoods on one another. 
A whole lot of us will borrow and won't pay back and stay 
in houses with women who are not our wives and say they 
are. We stay with her as long as we want to and then 
leave her with a shame. Some of us grudge our neighbor 
his possessions and are ourselves as selfish as selfish can be, 
and we do not care anything about our word. 

A lot of us do not want work and won't work. Some of 
us love to make fun of people. When our neighbors teach 
their children to do the right thing, others are leading them 



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astray. Some will do right when they want to, and leave it 
ott" when they get ready. And there are some who won't 
do right and do not care what you say or do to them. 

Now, all of these are not worldly folks, but some of them 
are so-called Christiano. This brings my mind to the 10th 
Chapter of Romans, Fir^t, Second and Third verses. When 
Paul was talking with the people at Rome, he said, "Bieth- 
em, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that 
they might be saved. For I bear them record, that they 
have zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they 
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to 
establish their own rightsousness, have not submitted to 
the righteousness of God." 

And when I see these things and think over them, my 
soul cries out within me. Net only our own people do this, 
but the other races do the same or worse. There are some 
people who are going to do right no matter what happens. 
Still I am not satisfied. 

Time is another thing that we do not regard. We have 
a meeting and we say that it will begin at seven o'clock, 
but when that time comes, only a few will te there and they 
will have to stay there and wait, I don't know how long, be- 
fore the others get there and sometimes it is the main ones 
who are holding the meeting back. In our meetings, 1 
notice that the one who com.es late is the one who hasn't 
time to stay untii the meeting is out. Especially, if it is a 
meeting that will help us to become a better race. It appears 
to me that they do not care about time. When someone 
sees them who v/ants to be on time, they will say, "You are 
early because you have plenty of time". Perhaps it is nearly 
time then for the meeting to start. We don't for one minute 
remember that there may be someone in that meeting who 
should be at home doing their work, or at some other place 
of duty. Perhaps they have been waiting for an hour and a 
half on you, when you get there, you have more to say than 
anyone else. 

I am talking about time because it is valuable. We came 
into the world on time and we are going out on time. There- 
fore, we ought to put all of our time in good service for God 
and for man. Job tells us that man's bound is set and that 
he cannot pass. Since we know we cannot pass it. then we 
ought to be up and doing for the Lord and lor the race. It 
is time for us to stop playing now and go to work. When 
the white people put on a meeting and say the meeting will 



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be at eight o'clock in the morning, v/hen that time comes 
every one of them will be tl:eie and, it they are not, there 
is someone to find the rea-on why. And when they get 
there, they stay until the meeting is over. To be a progres- 
sive race, we will have to do the same thing. becau>e it is 
time for business. There is a season for everything and a 
time for every purpose under the Heavens. A time to be 
born, and a time to die: a time to plant and a time to piuck 
up that which is planted ; 

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down 
and a time to build up; 

A time to weep and a time to laugh ; a time to mourn 
and a time to dance ; 

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones 
together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from em- 
bracing; a time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep 
and a time to cast away ; 

A time to reap and a time to sow; a time to keep silent 
ind a time to speak; 

A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a 
time of peace. 

So the world is at war since it cannot find peace, there- 
fore, I am dissatisfied. The more I write on this subject, 
the more I see to write about it. Many see, but few 
know. In the days of Noah when men began to multiply on 
the face of the earth and daughters ware born unto ihem 
t;v+ t'v^ prns ^f God saw the daughtsrs of men that they 
were fair, and they took them wives of ail which they 
cjfiuo=-e. 

They became wicked, so much so that it repented the 
Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved Him 
at His neart. And the Lord said, "1 will destroy man whom I 
created from the f?.ce of the earth." So God told Noah to 
build an ark. He told him how to build it jvid wnat 
to build it with. And He gave Noah a hundred and twenty 
years in which to buiid it. The people had the same length 
of time to repent. Noah went en doing the work that God 
had given him to do. At the same time, he warned the 
people about what was going to happen, but they wculd 
not believe him and went on their way. 

They saw Noah building the ark, but they did not know 
that God was going to destroy the earth with water and 
-oitho]^ r'-(] fhpy believe it. N-^ah kont warning them and 
they called him a foolish man. All of the people saw 



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him building the ark. but only a few knew what he was 
building it for. God himself was not satisfied. We people 
today are going from one place to another and, as we go. 
we see, but who knows what is in front of us and who knows 
where he or she is going to die and wnai thty are gomg to 
die in. You Gon't know whether you will die in the house 
or on the ground, or on the water. We go from piace to 
place and we see as we go, but who knows wnat will happen 
to what we have seen. We 1-e down at night to take our rest 
and when we get up in the mornmg, we see the sun shining 
brightly. But who knows what will happen before night. 
We speak that we know and testify that we have Scen. 
These words were spoken by Jesus Ciirist as He was talking 
to a rich ruler of the Jews who came unto Him by night 
and ^'iid unto Him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher 
come from God, for no man can do miracles that thou doest 
except God be with him. Jesus started to talk to him and 
told h'm ;o much that he begin to wonder. He said, "How 
can these things be?" Jesus answered and said unto him. 
"Art thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things? 
Verily, veri y, I say unto you, we speak that we know and 
testify that we have seen, and ye received not our wit- 
ness." So Nicodemus saw Jesus but did not know Him as he 
thought. 
So all of the nations see one another and one thinks it knows 
more than the other. That is what caused the great World 
War. Now, they r^re trying to find peace and can't find it. 
Why? Because thev do not w.int to recognize me. So I am 
yet dissatisfied. We as a race talk too much and 
that is one reason why we can't get along. For some of Us 
will tell other nations what is done among ourselves and 
th^t is th ' rpason they can keep us separated. No other 
nation will tell us what it knows and that is why they think 
thev can keep us separated. With God to help us, in spite of 
all that, we :ire going to make it right on to the end. We, 
as a race, ought to quit talking to other races about our- 
selves .'^irce we know how they have treated us and have 
given us the bad end. 

Let us change this thing around and start everything 
doing things for ourselves, so that we may be a nation like 
other nations. 

We have many betrayers in our race, and it ouerht to 
be fixi d so that when we (i'ld them, we could give them a 
"final resting place of honor." The 18th Chapter of Mat- 



thew, the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth verses, tells us "Woe 
unto the world because of offenses, for it must need be that 
offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence 
cometh! Wherefore, if thy hand, or thy foot, offend thee, 
cut them off' and cast them from thee: it is better for thee 
to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than, having two 
hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And, if 
thine eye offends thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: 
it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye than, 
having two, be cast into hell fire." Now, if you would 
read this whole chapter, it would give you a better under- 
standing of the subject which is now before you. 

If you would take in this subject as you read it, we would 
be a better people and a better race and it would stop us 
from talking about and betraying each other to the other 
races. I am saying these things because they are true and 
I have studied human nature and, especially, the Negro 
Race. For the world is my school house and the people are 
my books, and my Heavenly Father is my Teacher. I am the 
pupil who is learning wisdom from Him. 

If I can die for the other race, why is it that I can't die 
for myself? So I am not satisfied. No, I am not satisfied. 
I have been here now nearly forty years under the Stars 
and Stripes and I have found nothing in them yet that looks 
like me. A few years ago, I looked and saw peeping out 
from under a cloud something that looked like me. That is, 
the Red, Black and Green. Red is the color of the blood 
that men must shed for their redemption and liberty. Black 
is the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we 
belong. Green is the coibr of the luxuriant vegetation of our 
Motherland. But before Africa can be suft"iciently strong 
to protect all of us, we must have Annies, Navies, Ships, 
Factories, Mills, Educational Institutions, Churches, Thea- 
tres, Railroads, Docks, Farms, Banks, Stores, Ware- 
houses, Militia. Coal, Iron, Silver, Gold and Copper Mines, 
Mints and Chemicals, but above all. we need a Government. 

I AM NOT SATISFIED 

I want liberty and to get liberty, we will have to have a 
government and to get a government, we will have to have 
everything that is necessary to make a government. We 
want our own government like other nations and we must 
have a government like other nations. Someone may say 



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now, "Can Negioes have a Government?" Yes, go and build 
it up. Wiiere are we going to build it ? In Africa where our 
home i.s. You know the Bible says that, before the end of 
time, every nation shall return to its own home, but how do 
we know when the time will come. When you go away from 
your home and it is time for you to return, who tells 
you to rtlurn home? Well, common sense will tell any man 
when to go back to his house. 

If common sense will tell him to go back to his home 
then that same sense will tell us to go back to Africa 
•and do fur ourselves the .same thing we have done for other 
nations and that other nations have done for themselves. 

What have we to build our government with? We have 
the .same thing that the other nations had. They had noth- 
ing, but they went to work and got something. It is a 
strange thing to me to see how we can do things for others 
but, when it comes time to do something for ourselves, we 
will say, "We can't, for we have nothing to do it with." 
IJut if we will knock that "t" out of can't we will find 
that we can. 

.Some say. "Let all of them go to Africa that want to, 
for 1 have lost nothing there". No, but I am sure you have 
lost something in the United States. That is why the United 
States is in a bad fix today. My brother's blood is crying 
before Ciod as that of Ai)el when Cain, his brother, slew him. 
This is one of the things that causes me to be dissatisfied. 
Listen, CJalatians, Sixth Chapter, Seventh and Eighth verses 
say, "He not deceived. God is not mocked; for whatsoever 
a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth 
to his llesh shall of the llesh reap corruption. But he that 
soweth to the Spirit shall reap life everlasting." 

If you sow it. you will surely reap it. let it be good or 
bad. When we sow. we ought to be careful about how we 
sow a-nd what we sow, because it will come back upon us. 
Then, the Scripture says. "Take not that you cannot give". 
So. if you cannot give life, why should you take it? My 
Father is not dead, nor asleep. He has not gone away, 
He is not deaf, neither is He so weak that He cannot do any- 
thing he wants to do. For He said, "I will be with you in 
tlu' sixth trouble, and in the seventh trouble I will not for- 
sake you." 

(To be continued.) 



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Why I Am Dissatisfied 



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Rei\ Zebedee Green 




PART TWO 



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A Proclamation issued Jan. 30th, 1919, by Calvin Coolidge, 
then Governor of Massachusetts 

'^^ IVESCORE and ten years ago that Divine Providence, which 
If infinite repetition has made only the more a miracle, sent 
^^ into the world a new life, destined to save a nation. No 
star, no sign, foretold his coming. About his cradle all was poor 
and mean save only the source of all great men, the love of a 
wonderful woman. When she faded away in his tender years, 
from her deathbed in humble poverty she dowered her son with 
greatness. There can be no proper observance of a birthday which 
forgets the mother. Into his origin, as into his life, men long have 
looked and wondered. In wisdom great, but in humility greater, 
in justice strong, but in compassion stronger, he became a leader 
^f men by being a follower of the truth. He overcame evil with 
jood. His presence filled the nation. He broke the might of op- 
pression. He restored a race to its birthright. His mortal frame 
has vanished, but his spirit increases with the increasing years, 
the richest legacy of the greatest century. 

Men show by what they worship what they are. It is no 
accident that before the great example of American manhood 
our people stand with respect to reverence. And in accordance 
with this sentiment our laws have provided for a formal recogni- 
tion of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln ; for in him is revealed 
our ideal, the hope of our country fulfilled. 

Now, therefore, by the authority of Massachusetts, the 12th 
day of February is set apart as LINCOLN DAY and its observ- 
ance recommended as befits the beneficiaries of his life and 
admirerers of his charactt/. in places of education and worship 
wherever our people meet one with the other. 

Given at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this 30th day 
of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred 
and nineteen, and of the independence of the United States of 
America the one hundred and ^orty-iX^u^^^^^^ COOLIDGE 



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OPPORTUNITY AND WHEN TO GRASP IT 

There comes a time in every individual's life when an op- 
portunity of some kind presents itself; to old and young, whether 
it be little or much, it should be taken advantage of by that 
person. There are opportunities for both good and bad; the ones 
that should be taken are the good ones. But these are generally 
left to pass on by our doors and counted worthless by us. 

1 — The time to accept an opportunity, is when it presents 
itself to you. 

2 — The great men and women who have passed this way and 
left their footprints in the sands of time, did not have the op- 
portunity that we now enjoy. They had no schools in which to 
learn every skilled trade, business and profession which the 
world has in its program for today; nor did they have school 
buildings spreading over much land and towering toward the 
sky. But they caught the vision of this day, as best they could, 
and made it possible for you to have the opportunity. 

3 — I want to say to the youngsters of today that, if there 
were great men as far as Booker T. Washington's boyhood days, 
then, with the chance you have, you can be much greater men if 
you will only grasp the opportunity. 

School days are the best days in which to prepare your- 
selves. Opportunity will then open doors to you that have long 
been closed. This day offers an opportunity that was not offered 
in the day of your foreparents and now is your chance to grasp 
it for opportunities only comes to us once in a lifetime and then 
pass on, never to come to us again. It is easy to take hold then 
but oh, how hard when it has passed us by. 

4 — After long years have passed, we can only look back and 
say, "I had a good chance, but I let it pass. Now all my best days 
are spent, I see my mistake but cannot accept those opportunit- 
ies now, for they have gone by." 

5_So young people I leave this thought with you as_ a 
friend, would you count it wise to accept an opportunity while 
present, or, wait until it has passed and then run after it? 

6 — Our foreparents did not have the opportunity that I have 
and I haven't the opportunity that you have. For instance, our 
foreparents used the words "master" and "mistress" ; in my day 
and time we used "yes sir" and "yes ma'm"; in your day, you 
use the terms "yes" and "no". That shows some of our oppor- 
tunities. 

7 — I mention this to show how opportunities present them- 
selves to us and then pass on. 

So I would advise each as a friend, to grasp the opportunity /^ 
when it is present, for when it has passed it will never come 
again^^By Zebedee Green. 






"WHY I AM DISSA TISFIED. " 



This writing was done by the request of Hon. George A. 
Weston, who was the president of Pittsburgh Division No. 61, 
of the U. N. I. A. 

By Rev. Zebedee Green, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

In 1913 I just could write my name. Jesus said, "Seek ye 
first, the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness thereof, and 
all these things shall be added unto thee." 

Not enjoyment, and not Sorrow 
Is our destined end or way 
But to act that each tomorrow. 
Finds us farther than today. 

— Longfellow 



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4213 Shields St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



ZEBEDEE GREEN 



I began to write the second part of this book on January 

28th. 1921. 

It has come time for me to begin ^\Titing upon this great 
subject which is now before me: "WHY I AM DISSATISFIED." 

The world is dis.satisfied today because we Negroes are seek- 
ing our place in the Sun, which we mean to have; for so long 
as the Negro was satisfied, the world seemed to be satisfied, but 
when we looked and saw our condition we came to be dissatisfied, 
therefore the world became dissatisfied with us; because they 
were sucking our blood and that was what they had to live on. 
God did not intend it to be. The white man know when the Negro 
get out from under him, he will have to go and get it for hirriself. 
In the days of slavery they kept our fore-fathers under bondage 
and would not pay them anything for their work and at the 
same time they took advantage of our women, and today we 
are as spotted as a leopard with the many colors and yet w'e are 
the most loving race of people to them in the world, for any- 
thing they wanted us to do we did it, even among ourselves, so 
if they say, fight or kill one another we did it and have had u^ 
to help lynch, mob and burn our own people and made us honor 
them as lords on the earth. For all the pleasures of life was 
theirs, they thought, and we thought so too. But since the Hon. 
Marcus Garvey has brought to us through the hands of God the 
U. N. I. A., we have found out better; for life is for us as well as 
any one else, therefore it has caused me to be dissatisfied. 

I remember when I was a boy I worked for fifteen cents a 
day and had to go from 'can to can't'; this is from the time I 
just could see until I couldn't see, and they want us to keep that 
up now, but they are wrong, that is why they are trying to get 
the. Hon. Marcus Garvey out of the way and put him in the tomb. 
They think if they get him out of the way they can carry us 
back to the old stage again. Now, did God intend that to' be? 
No,/ for He has no respect of persons and therefore He created 
all men equal, and of one blood. But in creating man he [^ave him 
five senses that he might think and act in the right way— that 
is to till the earth and to give honor to His Creator, and love 
and care for one another during his short stay on earth ; but we 
are using these senses in another term. Instead of caring for 
one another, we- are trying to keep the other down, putting all 
the glory and blessing among one or two groups, so in that sin 
has taken place among us which I will show you farther down 
the line. ^As I write, showing you what has happened to govern- 
ments, and what will happen to any government or nation of 
peoi)le who do these things, and I will prove them by the Bible. 
God is dissatisfied with the condition of things that is now existing 



among us and so am I. The world is dissatisfied itself and all of 
it is one the account of sin and injustice. Now let us iro back to 
the beginning- of sin, with the words of the Bible and come down 
to the present time. 

1— NATURE 

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an 
abomination to men. — Prov. 24:9. 

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, 
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my 
right hand? — Isaiah 44:20. 

The heart is deceitful above all; things and desperately wick- 
ed :who can know it? — Jeremiah 17:9. 

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come 
forth fromjthe heart; and they defile the man. For out of the 
heart proceedeth evil thoughts ; murders, adultries, fornications, 
theft, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which 
defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a 
man.— (Matthews 15:18-20.) 

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God ; for it is not 
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be, so then they 
that are in the [flesh cannot please God. — (Romans :7-8). 

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eat- 
eth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith, is sin. — <Romans 
14:23.) 

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of 
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. the 
spirit now worketh in the children of disobedience. — (Ephesians 
2:2.) , 

But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his 
own lust and enticed. Then when, lust hath conceived, it bringeth 
forth sin: and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. — 
(James 1:14-15.) 

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it 
not, to him it is sin. — (James 4:17.) 

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for 
sin is the transgression of the, law. — (I John 3:4.) 

II EXAMPLES— Adam and Eve 

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 
and that it, was pleasant to the eye. and a tree to be desired to 
make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and 
gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. — (Genesis 
3:6.) 

CAIN — Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew 
his brother, and wherefore slew he him? Because his own works 
were evil, and his brother's righteous. — (I John 3:12.) 



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SODOM AND GOxMORAH 

And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorah 
is great, and because, their sin is very grievious; I will go down 
and see whether they have done altogether according to the crj' 
of it, which is come unto me, I will know. — (Gen. 18:20-21.) 

ACHAN — Achan asswered Joshua and said, "Indeed I have 
sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have 
I done:" When I saw among the spoils of goodly Babylonish 
garment, and two hundred sheckels of silver, and a wedge of 
gold of fiftj^ sheckels weight, then I coveted them and took them, 
and behold, they j are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, 
and the silver under it. — (Joshua 7:20-21.) 

SAUL — For rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft and stub- 
bornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast reject- 
ed the word of the Lord; ^le hath also rejected thee from being 
king.— (Samuel 15.23.) 

DAVID — And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against 
the Lord, and Nathan said, unto David, the Lord hath also put 
away thy sin; thou shalt not die. — (II Samuel 12:13.) 

AHAB — And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but 
thou and thy father's house, , in that ye have forsaken the com- 
mandments of the Loi'd, and thou hast followed Baalim. — (I 
Kings 18:18.) 

JEREBOAM AND THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL 

For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jere- 
boam which he did; they departed not from them. — (II Kings 
17:22.) 

JUDAS — Then, Judas which had betrayed him, when he saw 
that he was condemned repented himself, and brought again the 
thirty pieces of silver to the > chief priests and elders; saying, 
I have sinned in that I have betraj'ed the innocent blood, and 
they said, what is that to us? See thou to that. — (Matt. 27:34.) 

ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH 

Alexander, the coppersmith, did me much evil: the Lord 
heard him according to his works. Of whom be thou aware also, 
for he hath greatly withstood our words. — (II Timothy 4:14-15.) 

III. RESULTS 

And unto Adam he said, because thou hast barkened unto 
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree which I com- 
manded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat- of it: cursed in the 
ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days 
of thy life.— (Gen. 3:17.) 

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, himself, and he 
shall he holden with the cords of sins. — (Prov. 5:22.) 



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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul ; all 
they that love me love death. — (Prov. 8:06.) 

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot 
rest, whose waters cast up mire, and dirt. — (Isa. 57:20.) 

Thy way and thy doings have procured things unto thee; 
this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth 
unto thine .heart. — (Jeremiah 4:18.) 

But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their 
detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their 
way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. — (Ezk. 11:21.) 

For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirl- 
wind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if so be it 
yield, the stranger shall swallow it up. — (Hosea 8:7.) 

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of, sins, which were 
by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto 
death — (Romans 7:5.) » 

Now the work of the flesh are manifest, which are the.se: 
adultry, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness. — (Galatians 
5:19.) 

Be not, deceived; God is not mocked; for whatever a man 
soweth, that shall he also reap. — Galatians 6:7.) 

IV. DIVINE FEELING TOWARD 

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the 
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart 
was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had 
made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. — (Gen. 
6:56.) 

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; 
neither shall evil dwell wath thee. The foolish shall not stand in 
thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. — (Psalms 5:45.) 

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, 
are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. — (Deut. 25:16.) 

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth 
the covetous, whom the Lord abhoreth. — Psalms 10::3.) 

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, 
when we bringeth it withia wicked mind?— (Pro. 21:27.) 

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising 
early, and sending them, saying. Oh. do not this abommable 
thing that,! hate. — (Jeremiah 44:4.) 

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cau.^e me to behold 
grievance? for spoining and violence are before me: and there 
are that raise up and strife and contention.— (Hobakkuk 1:3.) 

And let none of you imagine evil in your heart against his 
neighbor; and love no false oath; for all these are things that 
I hate, saith the Lord.— (Zech. 8:17.) 



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And he said unto them, ye are they which justify your- 
selves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which 
is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of 
God.— (Luke 15:16.) 

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against 
all ungodliness of men, who hold the truth in uprighteousness. 

— (Romans 1 :18.) 

PENALTY — But ,of the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest 
thereof thou shalt surely die. — (Gen. 2:17.) 

Keeping merely for thousands, forgiving iniquity and trans- 
cessions and sins, and that will by no means clear the guilty: 
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children's children, 
unto the third and fourth generations. — (Exodus 34:7.) 

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the 
Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. — (Num. 32:23) 

These things hast thou done, and kept silence; thou thought- 
est that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will re- 
prove thee, and set them in order before thine eves. — (Psalms 
50:21.) 

Though hand joined in hand, the wicked shall not be un- 
punished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. — 
(Prov. 11:21.) 

He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall 
suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — (Prov. 29:1.) 

And these shall go away into , everlasting punishment: but 
the righteous into life eternal. — (Matt. 19:46.) 

And thinketh thou this. men, that judgest them which 
do such things and ,doest the same, that thou shall escape the 
judgment of God. — (Romans 2:3.) 

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escape 
not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not 
we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. 

— (Col. 2:25.) 

Be he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which 
he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. — (Heb. 12:25.) 

VL REMEDY 

He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded 
his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his name. — (Psalms 
111:9.) 

All we, like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every 
way. — (Lsa. 53:6.) 

He will turn again, he will give compassion upon us; he 
will subdue our iniquities: and thou will cast all their sins unto 
the depths of the .^oa.— (Micah. 7:19.) 

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house 
of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for 
uncleaness. — (Zech. 13:1.) 



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To give knowledge and salvation unto his people by the re- 
mission of their sins. — (Luke 1:77.) 

Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again 
for our justification. — (Romans 4:25.) 

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us 
from this present evil world, according to the will of God and 
our father. — (Gal. 1:4.) 

But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith 
he loved us, even when we were dead in sins hath cjuickened us 
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved). — (Eph. 2:4-5.) 

Who his ownself bear one sin in his own body on the tree, 
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by 
whose stripes ye were healed. — I Peter 2:24.) 

He that committeth sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth 
from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was mani- 
fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. — (I John 
3:8.) 

VII. REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS 

If my people which are called by my name, shall humble 
themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their 
wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive 
their sins and will heal their land. — (II Chron. 7:14.) 

I acknowledge my sins unto thee, and mine iniquity have I 
not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; 
and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. — (Psalms 32:5.) 

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and. 
as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 
— (.Isa. 44:22.) 

It may be that the house of Judah will hear aK the evil which 
I purpose to do unto them: that they may return every man 
from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and then- 
sin. — (Jer. 36:3.) 

Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel everyone ac- 
cording to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent and turn your- 
selves ^from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be 
your ruin.— (Ezk. 18:30.) 

For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly father 
will also forgive you. — (Matt. 6:14.) 

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over 
one sinner that repenth, more than over ninety and nine just 
persons, which need no repentence. — (Luke 15:7.) 

Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may 
be blotted out, when the time of refreshing shall come from the 
presence of the Lord. — (Acts 3:19.) 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us 
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. — (I John 
1:9.) 



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Now if you will read these scripture you will find out that 
sin is the cause of Governments and also races and nations to 
fall from a progressive stage in life. Now let us face facts and 
truths of our welfare here in the world. 

It is not the will of our Father that these things be. but it 
is the weakness of us. I say us because I am in the world with 
you, therefore the world is dissatisfied along with me, because 
of sin. And all of this is due to the fact of untrue leadership, 
for if we had true leadership they would see to it that all the 
people had true justice, and where the trouble is; the righteous 
people have got down off the justice seat and let the wicked take 
their places, and you know when your head gets wrong, then 
your whole body is wrong. And the nation don't seem to care who 
set on the seat as governor or seat at the head as president, so 
long as they say, "I will keep the Negro down", and I'm saying 
now, they may try to keep me down, but somebody will have to 
stay there with me for the 16 Chapter of Isaiah and the 1st 
Verse tells me to rise and shine, for the light is come and the 
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. But before the light will 
be turned on in full we must have our own government for if 
we stop here and don't continue to build our government then we 
will suffer more in the future than in the past, and not only we will 
be dissatisfied but our unborn children will be dissatisfied and 
they will be more oppressed than we are. So you see by that 
our own work is greater than ever before. For if we don't pro- 
tect ourselves no one else will do it for us. The Lord will help 
them that help themselves. 

Now since the Lord has sent us a true leader let us follow 
him. The U. N. I. A. is the greatest and best organization in the 
world today for us Negroes. 

The Honorable Marcus Garvey is the greatest leader in the 
world today. He has come with the greatest movement and 
stirred up the world. Therefore the world is dissatisfied. 

Some people say that we make a Jesus out him, — yes he is 
a Jesus to me, because the Lord sent him to save me from 
bondage, so I have two Jesus now. One to help me while I live on 
earth and one to save me when done with this earth. No one 
could do what he has done, and is doing now, but a Jesus. 

Now I know that I am dealing with a serious subject, and 
indeed a great and large one. it is the largest one that is con- 
fronting the world today. 

And I being so small a man in the mind, and also in the 
gospel but I'm forced to do so as a minister because the Bible 
tells me, as I being a minister: it says. "I place you on the wall 
as a watchman, and if you see danger coming, and you warn the 
people, and they keep on to destruction, then their blood shall 
be required at their own hands, but if you see it coming and 
don't warn them then their blood will be required at your 



v.] 

hands," and the Bible tells me ai^ain, "to po ye therefore, and 
teach all nations, baptizin^r them in the name of the father, and 
of the son and of the holy g:host, teaching them to observe all 
things, whatsoever I have commanded you. and lo I am with 
you always, even unto the end of the world", and in that I can 
fully see that God did not intend for one race or nati(jn of peo- 
ple, ito try to keep another race or nation down, and these are 
the things that make God and also the race or nation of people 
who are oppressed dissatisfied, for I find among races and na- 
tions of people, that they will teach my race, but they don't 
want my race to teach them. Now you take the United States 
of America: people can and have come from other countries 
here, and stay here a little while and they can sit on any high 
seat except the President's seat, and although we were bron and 
raised here we can't get one of these seats, no place: not even to 
make law that we might get a chance to help govern our people, 
and we have played our part in everything here just like any 
other man or woman. In every war that has been fought, my 
race was in it even the first drop of blood shed in this country 
was shed by a Negro, and yet we are less thought of by them, 
and lynched and mobbed and burned and they have taken the 
advantage of our women, and then want me to be satisfied, and 
try to tell me 'that we don't need a government. 

Yes I should say that I'm dissatisfied and who wouldn't be 
when things are going against them like that. The Bible says 
to everybodv, "Do unto all men as you would have them 
to do unto you", so if you want me to give you justice, why not 
give it to me? You can have a dog and if you treat him good he 
will love you and not only that he will protect you, and if you 
are cruel to i him, he will love a stranger better than he will love 
you. Then if an Animal has this much sense, what do you think 
of the human family, who are all created of one blood and of 
one flesh. 

I must say here, that there is no end to this subject because 
we will find out that we will be dissatisfied in many things in 
life as we go in the future, because the w(n-ld is stirred up 
on account of the Negro demanding his rights, that we must 
have at any cost. We are not asking any one to give us anything, 
all we ask is to let us alone and we will get what we want, and 
what belongs to us. For we have been working against ourselves 
for lo! these many years. Now we are determined to work for 
our selves, from now on as other races and nations who are 
working for themselves and had us to help them. That is one of 
the rea'sons why I am dissatisfied. 

They also try to scorn us and make us believe that we are 
nothing by calling us "nigger" or "darkey" and sometimes call 
us "black nigger", that is to make us believe that the color of 
our skin makes us nothing and is the cause of our condition 



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of being black. Now I had no one to come over in the other world 
before I was born to ask me what color I wanted to be and they 
didn't either, for when we all knew anything we were here in 
this world making a noise and if someone had come and asked 
us, it might have been that we all would have had a different 
color, to what we have but I am proud to say that black is 
honorable and I have sense enough to know that being black 
does not have anything to do with me being a human being like 
other races or nations and I want the world to know if there is 
any such thing as a 'nigger', they are among all races and na- 
tions of people for the devil is a nigger, and he has many follow- 
ers among all groups of people, and the devil with all of his imps 
is as dirty as dirty can be. Even he tried to be dirty in heaven 
but God would not let him and his imps stay there. He got them 
out from among the good and holy angels by throwing them 
out because he was dissatisfied with them so now they are here 
on earth among us therefore the whole world today is dissatis- 
fied and will be until someone comes and throw them into the 
next best place. 

I don't say that we are the best group, or race of people 
from days of slavery on down until now. And yet they try to 
make me believe that the color of my skin is the cause of my 
condition, but it is not so, for the cause of my condition is the 
reason that I haven't got anything is, the other race went to 
my country and got our forefathers and mothers and forced 
them into this country, as well as other countries and placed 
them in a way that they could not get anything for themselves. 
But today, we are determined through the mercy of God, to do 
something for ourselves and be a true race of people to our Crea- 
tor and Maker, and also to ourselves \\'e have been dissatisfied 
in this way long enough, that's why I like the U. N. I. A., be- 
cause it is getting us together again from all parts of the world 
and is giving us that principal and Improvement that we ought 
to have had all the time, but I find among us. that some of us 
don't want that but we don't always get what we want, but what 
we need. We need this and need it bad for we care but a little 
for race pride and race uplift, that's the reason I'm glad of 
my leader today. The more we hollar the more he go on to do 
the work that God has sent him to do, but I feel sure that all 
of us will feel proud of him in the future for we will not forget 
his imprisonment and also suffering that he took going through 
his trial, and also being in i)rison to bring justice to the race 
and are going through it now, and if the readers of this ibook 
will read closely they will find out that I am only dealing with 
things that will make any race or nation dissatisfied, for it is no 
good feeling when you think of it, and with all tills the i^eople 
use the word fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. 
They call me brother when they get in trouble, but when things 
is going on all right, then I'm no more than a dog in their sight, 



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and that is no good feeling when you think of ii and with all this 
that will make any race or nation dissatisfied for I will say 
that that look like brotherhood, and if you don't treat me right 
here, it is good evidence that you will not treat your God right; 
and if I can understand the meaning of brotherhood, it means 
that you should treat everybody alike regardless of creed or col- 
or. Now I am talking about common things, since I am among 
the common people in which races and nations will have to stop 
and recognize the common people and also stop and pick up com- 
mon things, for they have left them reaching after highor things 
in which it has caused us all to be dissatisfied. 

For when Christ was here it was the common people that 
followed Him, for the so-called wise people knew so much, and 
had so much, until they would not stop to fool with Him. So to- 
day it is only the common people that is following ^Marcus Garvey 
to help him free this race, but it is dangerous to fool with the 
U. N. I. A. and the ones who are interested in it for we are after 
freedom and liberty and, that, we must have by the help of God, 
for we fear nothing under the sun but God. We are tired of 
the other races wiping our mouths with meat skins and telling 
the world that we have been eating meat, because from now on, 
if our mouths are greasy and anyone ask us what have we been 
eating we are going to tell them that we have been eatintr moat 
and not the skin. 

For we are awoken people and not asleep, for in the days 
gone by a Negro was at a gin mill lying on a bale of cotton asleep 
and two white men was standing near the Negro who was asleep 
smiled in his slumber, and these white men seen him, one said 
to the other: "I wonder what that nigger is laughmg about? 
and his reply back was, "I don't wonder that for I am thinkmg 
about what that nigger will do when he wakes up." So we Negroes 
are awake now and not only that, we are getting up and putting 
on our clothes, and when we get them on the world will see what 
we are going to do, for the question was asked sometime ago 
by a writer, "What will it take to satisfy the Negi-o?" Now I'm 
going to answer the question through this book by saying, "The 
onlv thing will satisfy we Negroes is, that we must get every- 
thing that other races and nations have. We want nothing 
more and nothing less, for we are due it and we must have it 
Because if it is good for the other races and nations then it 
is o-ood for the four hundred million Negi'oes of the world. \V o 
we have satisfied their wants by helping them to build a great 
empire and helped them protect it after building it. 

Now we are going to satisfy ourselves by building an empire 
of our own and protecting it ourselves. So the world see that 
we are determined to build our own empire, therefore it has 
become dissatisfied. That's why they tried to destroy the Hon. 
Marcais Garvev and put him in the tomb, saymg that he had 
defrauded the 'United States mail, saying that he had taken we 



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poor colored people's money, when the United States of Amer- 
ica itself know that he did not take it, not only the United 
States knows that he didn't take it but the world know that 
he didn't take it. 

For ]\Iarcus Garvey is known to the four corners of the 
earth, therefore it's no place on earth for him to hide. Because 
any place he goes he will meet a Negro and they will know him, 
and its a known fact, that he can't stay in the air, and if he did 
it would be more than anyone else has done. 

NO! All of it was done because ^larcus Garvey came to 
give life to the Negroes all over the world. And they thought 
if they were able to get him out of the way they would be 
able to destroy the Association. 

Why didn't they hollar when white people and Negroes 
too, were taking everything from the Negro they could get 
their hands on, from ages back on down to the present time. 
Look at the many hundred banks that have cried out. Busted", 
many lodges and other institutions, and they go from one state 
to the other and build mansions and plants of all kinds. No- 
body said anything about it. Now because Marcus Garvey came 
with this great movement and to build a Government that the 
Negroes everywhere might be protected like other races and 
nations are protected. 

Now they wants to take advantage of him by saying that he 
defrauded the United States mail, and destroy him, and scatter 
the six and a half million Negroes that belong to the Associa- 
tion. 

But we will see to it that all devils in hell will not separate 
us. Therefore we are determined to free ourselves. 

Now let me get you told about me and Marcus Garvey and 
this Association, I cares no more for Marcus Garvey than no 
other man, as far as the human being is concerned for I respect 
every man as a human being. It is the Association and the prin- 
ciple^ for which the Association stands for. in which I will die 
thereby which God gave to him to bring to this race of people, be- 
cause he see their condition. Therefore I'll pull my hat off to 
Marcus Garvey and give him the honor that is due him. For 
Marcus Garvey is telling the Negroes everywhere to do some- 
thing for himself. 

Now I didn't have the advantage of schooling, I only went 
to school three months, and I worked all day and went to 
school at night. But the National Benefit Insurance Company is 
due much credit for I had the honor of being an agent for them 
for more than a year, in which it is the largest Negro company 
in the world. They employs over nine hundred men and women 
of its own race, in which they are operating now in twenty-five 
different states. 

Now my friends to show that the Negro has played his 



part I will relate to you some of the wars in which he played 
his part as a man. 

Historical Sketch of the American Ne^ro War Record 

Negroes fought in every war of consequence during the 
colonial period. 

South Carolina in the year of 1704 enacted a law empower- 
ing and calling upon Negroes, both slaves and freemen of color 
saw services in the war of 1711-1713 against the Indians. Ne- 
groes played a conspicious part in the Yemasse War (1715-1718) 
which threatened the whole colony of South Carolina. 

During the year of 1708, at which time the Queen Anne's 
War was being waged, Rhode Island passed a law providing for 
enrolling all men regardless of color between the ages of 16 and 
60 in the state militia. 

The Revolutionary War (1775-1783) one of the first martyrs 
to shed blood and to sacrifice his life in the struggle for in- 
dependence was Crispus Attucks. a Negro, who was fatally 
wounded in the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1775. At the Battle 
of Bunker Hill. June 17, 1775, when Major Pitcarin of the 
British Army was exulting in his expected triumph. Peter Salem 
Negro, stepped forward and killed him. Salem, a poor Negro 
also distinguished himself in this battle and was reported to 
Congress for distinguished Service. At the time Colonel Barton 
of the American Army undertook to capture General Prescott. 
while the royal army was stationed at Newport. R. I., his Chief 
Assistant was a Negro named Prince. 

In 1777 a Negro company was organized in Boston. It may 
seem increditable to a person living in the twentieth century, 
that the majority of Negroes, slaves for the most part, were 
allowed or had the desire to fight for the freedom of the people 
that enslaved them. Even the British used the Negro as a soldier 
to a very large extent during the year of 1775, Negroes com- 
posed more than one-third of the garrison at Fort Cornwallis at 
the time of seizure of Augusta, Ga., war of 1872. 

Even though in the year of 1812. United States did not 
recoznize the Negro as a citizen. The cause of the war of 1812 
was due to the imprisonment of three sailors by the British Gov- 
ernment, two of which were Negroes. During the war of 1812 
when Gen Andrew Jackson was in command at ^lobile. Ala., 
Some American Troops that had charge of the British were re- 
treating- in disorder and when a Negro named Jeffries saved the 
day by placing himself at the head of the troops and rallying 

them to a charge. * i, i • *u 

General Jackson also called on Negro soldiers to help in the 
defense of New Orleans. Here, they especially distinguished 
themselves. It was a Negro who convinced the idea of the famous 
cotton breast works used in that battle. ^ ^,. , . 

In October, 1814, an act was passed establishing two regi- 



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ments of Negro militia in New York State. About this time Ne- 
groes formed more than one-tenth of the crews of all battle- 
ships. John Davis and John Johnson, Negro sailors on the private 
armed schooner, George Thompson, were among those cited for 
conspicious bravery. 

Mexican War— 1845-1847 

The period from 1845 to 1847 were the darkest hours in 
American history for the Negro. It was at this time that the 
Negro was removed from both, the United States Army and 
State Militia. No information can be found as to the definite 
number of Negro soldiers who took a part in the INIexican War 
and were present at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1847 when they man- 
ned the naval battery in that siege. We are sure that some did 
participate as the question of how many Negroes were in the 
army and navy during the Mexican War came up in Congress 
a few years afterward. 

Civil War— 1861-1865 

The first Louisiana volunteer was the first regiment of Ne- 
groes enlisted during the war, and the first under fire. Negroes 
were prominent in the operating of the siege of ]May 27, 1863 
under Colonel Nelson. On June 14, 1863 color Sergeant, A Plan- 
ciancois was killed, when the colors were given to him he said, 
"Colonel I will bring back these colors to you or report to God 
the reason why." On July 8, 1863 a Negro in the capture of the 
Confederate battleship at Port Hudson. On July 18, 1863. the 
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, colored, under the com- 
mand of Colonel Robert Gouldshaw distinguished itself in an 
attempt to take Fort Wagner. On this occasion Sergeant Will- 
iams H. Carney siezed the regiment of colors from the hands 
of a fallen comrade and planted them to the works. When borne 
bleeding from the field he said, "Boys the old flag nearly touched 
the ground." At Fort Pillow, April 13, 1864 the Negro soldiers 
made a bold stand against great odds. 

Among other engagements in which Negroes took part are 
the following: Olustie. Fla., P^eb. 20. 1864; Wilson Wharf, Va., 
May 24, 1864 ; .Alillikens Bend, Va., June 6. 1863 ; the Battle of 
Morris Island. August 25, 1863; Deep Botton, Virginia, June 
30 to July 1, 1864; Chaffins Farm. Va., Sept. 20. 1869; Fair Oaks, 
Va., Oct. 27-28. 1864. Hatcher Run, Va. :March 20-31. 1865 
Farmville, Va., April 7. 1865. 

In these battles the colored soldiers won for themselves 
lasting glory and golden oi)inion. 

In New Orleans, Aug. 24. 1862 there were formed two 
regiments in which all the new and a large number of the live 
officers were colored. 

Oct. 13, 186;> orders were issued to enlist colored troops in 
Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee. The total number of colored 



troops in the armv from 1862-1805: New KukIuikI, 7.916; the 
Middle States, 13,922; Western States. 12,711; the Border States, 
45,184; Southern States, 63,571. Total. 143,304. 

Spanish- American War — 1898 

The Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, and the 
Ninth and Tenth Calvary fought during the last years of the 
Spanish-American War, and entered regular service 1866. 
Various volunteer companies were raised in Alabama. Virginia, 
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Ohio. The Eighth Illinois was 
officered entirely by Negroes with J. R. Marshall. Commanding 
Major; Charles E. Young was in charge of the Ohio battalion. 

These latter organizations formed a part of the militia of 
their respective States at the out-break of the Spanish-American 
War, 1898. The first regiment ordered to the front in this war 
was the Twenty-fourth Infantry. Negro troops were conspicious 
in fighting around Santiago. They figured in a brilliant charge 
at Lasquasimas on June 24. 1898 and in an attempt on June 1, 
upon a garrison at El Caney. 

It was in this war that Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders 
were saved from annihilation by the gallant work of the Tenth 
Calvary. 

The Battle of Carazal— 1916 

During the year of 1916 the United States had trouble with 
Mexico. Among the troops sent to guard the border were the 
10th Calvary, 24th and 25th Infantry and the Chicago National 
Guards. On March 24th, 1916 a colored man was killed at Paral. 
He was the first to die in this battle. The most important en- 
gagement occured on the morning of June 21st 1916 when the 
troops C .-iind K of the 10th Calvary were attacked by surprise 
in the tow^n of Carrzal while attempting to secure permission 
to pass through the town to reach Villa Alunado. . , ^ ^ 

The troops of the 10th Calvary were outnumbered eight to 
one in this engagement. Fifteen enlisted men were killed, nine 
wounded and twentv-three were capturd. Those who were taken 
to prison suffered a great humilation at the hands of their 

caTDtors 

Peter Bagstaff, a trooper of the 10th Calvary was died for 
bravery because of the danger he encountered in aidinr.- hi^ 
wounded and dying officer, Lieut. H. F. Adair. 

Guard of Honor— 1917 

Much honor came to Negro Americans Nvhen on March 25. 
1Q17 fV.P «^pcretarv of War bv order of the President called the 
fiLt sepamte bat alTon of the District of Columbus to defend 
?hf NTonal capitol. This was just before the ormal ckclara- 
tion of war. They were under command ot Major James E. 



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Walker and were used for guarding the capitol, White House, 
water supply system, Potamac River projects, various power 
plants and district railroads, and other places of importance that 
made for the health and happiness and person securities of the 
capitol of the American Republic. Although the colored troops 
were outnumbered by the white troops stationed in the city, the 
fact that the first separate battalion was placed at the first honor 
post was concrete evidence officially acknowledged that the Afro- 
Americans' allegiance was rightly not even suspected of being 
less than one hundred per cent. 

World War— 1914-1918 

There was 387,710 Negro soldiers who served in the United 
States Army during the World War. Out of this number 367,710 
came into the service through the operation of the select draft 
law. When war was declared 20,000 Negro soldiers were ready 
to enter the field which comprised the 9th and 10th Calvarys, 
24th and 25th Infantrys. 8th Illinois and 15th New York Na- 
tional Guards of the 9th Battalion of Ohio Company L. National 
Guards of Massachusetts — the first separate Company of Conn., 
first separate Company of Maryland G. National Guards of 
Tennessee and the first separate battalion of the District of 
Columbia. 

On October 15, 1917, 639 colored men were commissioned at 
Camp Dodge as officers in the United States Army. Of the num- 
ber 106 were commissioned as Captains, 329 as First Lieuten- 
ants and 204 as Second Lieutenants. 

The famous Negro Division (92nd) was commandered to a 
large extent .by Negro Officers. The division made a splendid 
record, not only on the firing line but also for discipline while 
in France. The division took part in the following engagements: 
St. Dis (Vasges Sector), Argonne Forest (Meuse Sector) Mar- 
bache Sector, (Martha Mosselle) before Metz. In this division 
57 men of which fourteen were officers were awarded the distin- 
guished Service Cross. There were 209 men killed in action. 32 
died of wounds, 589 wounded, 799 gassed and 28 reported miss- 
ing. 

The following organizations were brigaded with the French 
Army: 369th, 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantrys. 

The 369th took part in the following engagements at Bois 
d'Hause Champagne where the regiment held a complete sec- 
tor; Minancourt, near Butte De Mesniland and in the engage- 
ments which started at jMarsonen-Champagne. 

It was in the last engagement that the entire regiment was 
cited for bravery and awarded the Croix de Guerre. The 369th 
was the first regiment of the allied armies to reach the Rhine. 

The 370th was commandered by colored officers, Lieutenant 
Colonel O. B. Duncan commanding officer. The 370th met 
its strongest opposition on the Sissons front in which engage- 



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ments they distinguished themselves l>y taking Hill 304 from 
the Germans. 

The 371st for the first three months in the trenches held 
Arocourt and later Verrieris, sub sectors northeast of Verdun 
They were put into the great September offensive in the Cham- 
pagne sector. From September 28th to October 6th. 1918 this 
regiment lost 1.065 men out of 2,384 actually engaged. Their 
regimental colors were decorated and the entire regiment was 
awarded a citation for bravery. 

The 372nd was decorated as an entire regiment with the Croix 
de Guerre for distinguished service, in the Champagne offensive. 

The following are some of the sectors held by the 372nd: 
Argonne , West Vacquois sector (sub sector of Verdun). 

Negro heroes of the war who received the greatest honor 
and note and who were the first awarded the Croix de Guerre 
were Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, both of the loth 
National Guards of New York. 



Now we all see that the Negro has played his part in the 
wars as a man, so it is no doubt about that, and yet since he has 
played his part he hasn't the opportunity to execute his brain and 
power as other races and yet they try to make us Negroes be- 
lieve that we don't know anything along these lines. But that 
is a big mistake for we have men and women in our race that 
can do anything that any other man or woman in the other races 
or nations can do and not only that he has done it. 

Even Abraham Lincoln in his day saw in the Civil War and 
even before, along with other men what the Negro could do. So 
much so until it forced him to make this speech at the close of 
the Civil War: 

Four scores and seven years ago, our forefathers brought 
forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and 
dedicated to the proportion that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great Civil War; testing whether 
that natiion or any nation so conceived, so dedicated, can longer 
endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have 
come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place 
for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It 
is altogether fitting and proper, that we should do this. But in 
a large sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot concentrate, we can- 
not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 
struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add 
or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what 
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for 
us, the living, rather to be dedicated here, to be untmished 
work of those who fought here have. thus far so nobly advanced. 
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task re- 
maining before us. That from these honorable dead, we take 



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increase devotion for that cause for which they gave their last 
full measure of devotion — that we have hiprhly resolved that 
these dead shall not have died in vain, and that this nation 
under God shall have a new birth of freedom and, that govern- 
ments of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not 
perish from the earth. 



Now that speech was deeper than you can imagine and it 
will be brought out some day in the fullest sense for he saw the 
mind and power of the Negro, and he knew if the Negi'o got 
a chance, what he would do. 

So the Negro's chance is here now and you can make sure 
that we will get all out of it that is in it for we have been wait- 
ing long enough on some one else to give us that which we can 
get for ourselves. For even though the speech of Abrahiim Lin- 
coln, the white man, has been telling us that we don't know 
anything and we don't know how to do anything, and took all 
of our privileges from us. 

But I thank God today that I can say that we can do any- 
thing on this green earth that any other race or nation can do. 
All we ask is let us alone and we will show them that we can 
for they tell us that we can't handle a government, but with the 
help of God we are going to show them that we can handle and 
hold a government, for in this government and the many other 
governments they will not allow us to do that which we can 
do, because we are black people they say. But still they want 
us to fight for them every time they get in trouble. And in this 
great World War the cry was everywhere that this is all of our 
country and we all were as one for we all were fighting for 
democracj^ for we were going to make this country safe once 
for all. 

It was a time of trouble and you didn't hear 'black nigger' 
mentioned, and as soon as peace was declared they turned it 
from democracy to a moggason and now you cnn hear t?ie word 
'black nigger' anywhere. 

Now why I'm dwelling upon this word 'black' is because the 
white people try to make us believe because we are colored peo- 
ple that, that is why we are in the condition that we're in and 
that's why they scorn us. But it is not so, because if we were so 
much poison and detrimental to their color, why is it that they 
take all of the money that can be gotten out of our black hands 
and take everything that we can accumulate that is really worth 
while, that was gotten by the same black hands and at the same 
time take our women and men into their cook kitchens. And 
they take these same black hands and mingle and handle their 
food. They take the same food and eat it and are satisfied, and, 
in lots of cases ask for more of the food that was cooked by the 
same black hands and vet when its time for us to sit on the 



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trains, street cars or even in the home, they scorn us and Jim 
Crow us in every form because of our blackness, but the truth 
about the thing is, the condition of us not having having a gov- 
ernment; they taught us how to do for them but they never 
taught us to do for ourselves. We Negroes are thinking and 
teaching ourselves since we know what is best for us. for we 
have found out that the same thing that is good for the white 
man is good for us Negroes; that is what causes us to be dis- 
satisfied. In reading the book of Daniel I see that he was dis- 
satisfied in his day, just as we are now for he was captured and 
brought from his home, Jerusalem to Babylon, like the people 
did our forefathers when they captured them in Africa and 
brought them to this country and carried them also to other 
countries and held them as captives. But Daniel being in 
captivity did not forget his motherland like a lot of us Negroes 
have, for he was dissatisfied. He went up into his upper room 
and looked toward Jerusalem and prayed three times a day for 
he longed to go back to his motherland where he came from 
Here some of us Negroes hollar "Africa is not my home" — for 
here I was born and raised and right here is where I am going 
to stay. Yet they see the condition that, we as a race, are in. Here 
comes Marcus Garvey with this great movement to help us get 
back home, for in the days of old as well as in the twentieth 
century the Lord heard the Negi'oes' groans in the land for some 
of us Negroes are like Daniel, we are praying three times a day 
and looking towards our mother land — Africa. I hear a mighty 
roaring of voices as a mighty wind in the north, south, east and 
west saying, "Oh Africa, Africa, my mother land where I long 
to be. We Negroes are dissatisfied here as in other countries 
and we will be the world's guest until we get back home where 
we belong." Some of the Negroes do not want to go to Africa 
because they know they will have to work to build it up and 
there are trees to fell, cities to be built, railroads to !"■ '"''r 
factories, department stores and plants of all kinds and 
to be done they know it will take work to do it and some of us 
are yet dependant upon the white man to do for us what we 
ought to do for our selves, but I thank God we hav^ ..,^.....rU %-,, 
groes who are willing to go and do the work and r\ 
pass — for their children and their children's children and these 
lazy jackasses who are afraid that they will do sonv ' ' ■■ for 
themselves or for the race, thinking that the one Wi.-. ^^ will- 
ing to go and do the work that they will come afterward and en- 
joy the praises. Well! that may be so, for that is the way this 
whole world has been doing for these thousands of years, but I 
will say this it does not show any manhood or womanhooc! abojt 
them at all. All races or nations have this kind of lazy people 
in their group. They are not any good to themselves ami i.or 
anvone else. Thev are just here in good peojile's way. so to speak, 
and that kind of ^people wouldn't have anything if you wr.uld give 



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it to them; they would throw it away. Now look back at the 
past and see how many you know that were left wealthy or 
what someone else left them and see how much they have of it 
now and even the Bible speaks of this, so you can see it takes 
only the one who is willing to do the work some one eUe made it 
possible for me so I could do this work so I will have to do 
likewise for others. So I am yet dissatisfied. 

Smash the separate school ideas says one writer of the Ne- 
gro race who wrote an article in the Pittsburgh American ]\Iarch 
2. 1923. Though it is one year from that date that I am an.^wer- 
ing his article. I take much pleasure in doing so. This class of 
Negro are sick in bed with the white man's fever for they think 
that Negroes ought to always stick under the white man and 
let him do for the Negro what the Negro should do for himself. 
Now that class of Negroes ought to have sense enough to know 
and see that the white man will not let the Negroes teach him 
or his children. Then why is it that he wants to be better to 
the white man than the white man is to him or his people? The 
white man knows that no race or nation of people is not going 
to teach his children like he would himself and when the Negro 
learns that he is responsible for his own children then he will 
do the same thing. As for the Negro being Jim Crowed, that was 
placed upon him when the white man brought our forefathers 
and mothers from our mother land to this country and the only 
thing that will lift the Jim Crow system of the Negro is that 
he get a government of his own. The reason that Negro 
schools are not better than what they are is because the so- 
called leading Negro puts his money where the white man can 
get it and takes it and open banks, department stores, factories 
and many other things that he wants to do with it and by the 
Negro doing this it has helped the white man to make his 
school what it is today and also helped him to have the business 
places that he has to put his boys and girls in after they get 
their education, but the Negro has closed the doors in his chil- 
dren's faces in many ways. Some of them are still doing it. Yet 
they are saying, "I am for the Race I" This class of Negroes are 
not any good to the race nor to themselves and when it comes 
to the separation the white man has already done that himself 
for a white man is a white man and I don't care how you take 
it, for it has been tried out over and over again. The people who 
are fighting for the separate school have what belongs to them 
in the way of looking out for the Race because they see the 
damage of it so the fight is on and will be until we true Negroes 
of our Race get what we want ami what we must have, and as 
I said before, a white man is a white man therefore we who are 
Negroes ought to be Negroes and nothing else but Negroes. 

Notwithstanding we will have to respect the white man and 
his government but upon doing this we are determined to work 
for ourselves and give the Race that which they ought to have 



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had long ago; that is, a government so that we can protect our- 
selves like other races and nations, for so long as we stay in this 
condition that we are in now we will never get any race or nation 
to respect us. We want them who are not afraid to work in the be- 
half of this Race and who are not afraid that they will hurt 
the white man's feelings concerning the bad treatment that 
they gave the Negro people of the world. This is the time that 
a change must take place in the behalf of the Negro people of 
the world and for this to be done we want Negroes who are not 
afraid to work, who are not afraid to stand up like a man should, 
and who are not afraid to die for the cause of this Race of ours. 
We cannot do anything in this world but work and serve human- 
ity and glorify our God and Lord Saviour Jesus Christ. 

GREATNESS! I find some Negroes who want to be great 
without working or giving the proper service. That never will 
be done, for no man or woman ever became great without giving 
great service in some way for the uplift of humanity. God put 
all mankind here on earth for a purpose and that must be carried 
out by working and giving service to the human family as He 
appointed man to do. As for me I expect to work and give serv- 
ice to the human family, both spiritually and materially as it 
was appointed by my heavenly father for me even in creation 
for everything that has been done or even was done through 
creation. 

Moses, Joshua, King David, Isaiah, Elisha Jerimiah. Quefen 
Esther, Mary the mother of Jesus, Elizabeth the mother of 
John, Zachious King Solomon, Job and also our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter Paul, and others 
who could be mentioned became great only by giving serv- 
ice to falling humanity and if any of us Negroes or any other 
race of people become great it must be through giving service 
to' the people of the world. That is why I am dissatisfied now 
because of the condition of my Race all over the v/orld. When 
God Himself gave service even before he commanded anyone 
else to give it by creating the heaven and the earth and in that 
I see that God Himself cannot use any lazy people for all through 
the Bible I read where it tells us to work out our own salvation 
through fear and trembling and to do this it must be done 
through giving service. Daniel, another one became great by 
giving service. Let's take up a part of the 12th Chapter of the 
book of Daniel and see did he not become great. He was captured 
as I aforesaid and carried to Babylon just like our forefathers 
were and brought to this country in that he became dissatisfied. 

Daniel 12th chapter and 1st verse, "And at that time shall 
Michael stand up. the great prince which standeth for the chil- 
dren of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such 
as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: 
and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that 
shall be found written in the book." Second verse, "and many 



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of them that slept in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to 
everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt." 
Third verse, "And they that be wise shall shine as the bright- 
ness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteous- 
ness, as the stars for ever and ever." Fourth verse, "But thou, 
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book even to the time 
of the end ; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be in- 
creased." 

The words and the "Book" here spoken of doubtless refer 
to the things which had been revealed to Daniel in the prophesy. 
These things were to be shut up and sealed until the time of the 
end; that is, they were not to be specially studied or to any 
great exent understood until that time. The time of the end as 
has already been shown commenced in 1789 as the book was 
closed up and sealed to that time the plain inference is that at 
that time or from that point, the book was to be unsealed; that 
is, people would be better able to understand it, and would have 
their attention especially called to this part of the inspired 
word. Of what has been done on the subject of prophecy since 
that time it is unnecessary to remind the reader. The prophecy, 
especially Daniel's prophecy has been under examination by all 
students of the world wherever has spread abroad upon the 
earth and so the remainder of the verses being a prediction of 
what should take place after the time of the end commenced, 
says, "Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be in- 
creased. Whether this running to and fro refers to the passing 
of people from place to place and the great improvements in 
the facilities for transportation and travel made within the 
present century or whether it means as some understand it, a 
turning to and fro in the prohpecy ; that is, a diligent and earn- 
est search unto the prophetic truth, the fullfillment is certainly 
and fully before our eyes; and in both of these directions the 
present age is very truly marked. 

So of the increase of knowledge. It must refer to the in- 
crease of knowledge in general, the developments of the arts 
and science or an increase of knowledge in reference to those 
things referred to in Daniel, which were closed up and sealed 
to the end of time. Look at the marvelous achievement . of the 
human mind and the works of man's hand rivaling the magician's 
wildest tricks which have been accomplished within the last 
hundred years. The scientific American has stated that \vithin 
this time more dcvelopement has been made in all scientific at- 
tachments and more progress in all that tends to domestic com- 
fort, the rapid transaction of business among men. the trans- 
mission of interchange from one to another and the means of 
rapid transit from place to place, and even from continent to 
continent then all that was done for three thousand years pre- 
viously, but today. 

l^The suspension bridge. The first suspension bridge as 



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noted in this country was built across the Niagara River in 1855. 
The Brooklyn Bride was completed in 1883. 

2 — Electric lig-htin<r. This system of litrhtinjx was perfected 
and brought into use withing the last twenty years of the 19th 
century. Only two electric lighting experts were to be seen at 
the Central Exhibit in Philadelphia in 1856. At the Paris Ex- 
hibition twenty-four years later where there were two hundred 
such exhibits. 

3 — Modern artillery. At Sandy Hook, guarding the entrance 
to New York Harbor is a monster breach-loading gun forty-nine 
feet in length, weighing one hundred and thirty^ tons, capable of 
throwing a shell at a distance of twenty miles. 

4 — The Automobile. Only a few years ago this machine \\as 
entirely unknown. Now automobiles are common in every sec- 
tion of the country and bid fair to almost entirely supersede the 
horse carriage as a means of locomotion. Read in connection with 
the description of the automobile and the railroad train the pro- 
phecy of Nahum 2:3-4. 

o — Presses now used in the large newspaper offices con- 
sumes in an hour two hundred and eighty miles of paper, of 
newspaper width and turn out in the same time 06.000 papers 
of 16 pages folded, pasted and counted. Contrast with the hand 
printing press of Benjamin Franklin. 

7 — The telegraph. This was first put into operation in 1844. 

7 — The trolley car. The first practical electric railway line 
was constructed and operated at the Berlin International Ex- 
position in 1879. Interurban travel by trolley car in many places 
nearl}^ equals in speed and excells in comfort the best steam rail- 
, way service. It is generally believed, in fact that the electricity 
is about to conquer steam on the railway lines. 

8 — The Telephone. The first patent on the telephone was 
granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. 

The steam railway. The first American built locomotive was 
made in Philadelphia in 1832. The use of the steam engine for 
locomotion have made it possible to travel around the world in 
about forty days. 

10 — Ocean Steamship. Early in the last century the applica- 
tion of steam power to ship revolutionized ocean travel. Ships 
are now built which can cross the ocean in four days and are 
supplied with every luxury to be found in the finest hotels and 
in size far out rank the famous great eastern. 

11 — The Modern Battleship. A single battleship of the pres- 
ent day could easily overcome the combined naval fleet of the 
world as they were at the middle of the century. 

12 — Typewriter. The first model of the modern tjTpewriter 
was put on the market in 1874. 

13 — The Combination Reaper and Thresher. Tomnare the 



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harvesting methods of the present clay when grain is not only 
cut and gathered, but at the same time threshed and collected 
in a bag ready for the market by one machine with the old 
method of hand reaping which was in use in the days of our 
grandfather. 

14 — ^The Type Setting Machine. This machine has worked 
a revolution in the art of printing. The first Mergenthaler 
machine was made in 1884. 

15 — Oil Wells. The discovery of petroleum in the last cen- 
tury revolutionized domestic lightning also affording such in- 
dispensible products as benzine and gasoline. 

structed in 1877. 

16 — The Phonograph. The first Edison phonograph was con- 
The Photographic Camera. The first sunlight picture of a 
human face was made by Prof. Draper of New York in 1840. 

Wireless Telegraphy. The first apparatus capable of trans- 
mitting wirelesss messages over long distance was made by 
Marconi in 1896. 

Almost every large steamship is now provided with this 
appratus and conversations can be carried on by people of the 
ocean hundreds of miles apart, A daily paper is published on 
trans-atlantic liners giving each day's news of the world events 
sent out by the wireless telegraphy to the ships from the shores 
of America or of Europe. 



Now the writer has given us many ideas upon the prophecies 
of Daniel, and also on the inventions that were invented in the 
last hundred years. But first we will talk about people going to 
and fro through the world and knowledge shall be increased 
unto them. For Daniel desired to see the end and what the end 
will be. So I'm like Daniel, I desire to know the end. and what 
the end will be, but that part is shut up from me as it was shut 
up from Daniel. Therefore I will have to continue to wTite. 

You take the white world, they have been going to and 
from through the world and knowledge has been increased unto 
them, but they kept it hid from the dark world. They have gone 
as high as civilization will allow them to go. So it must come 
down. 

Job said a man continues not in one stead, he is either go- 
ing up or down. So the same thing to the races and nations. So 
when the white world reached the highest height then God put 
it into the Germans head that they could whip the whole world. 
And I believe that the Germans would have done it if they had 
not brought in the darker world. The truth about it I don't be- 
lieve that Germany was whipped, but after fighting such a 
length of time, and they saw a race of people standing before 
them who had not done them any wrong therefore they threw 



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up their hands from the battlefield. And in Germany challenKing 
the world for a fight then the white man cried this is a white 
man's war and not a Negro's war. But when they got into it 
they found out that they couldn't do without the darker peo- 
ple of the world, both for war and for labor. 

At the beginning of the war, the masses of Negi'oes were in 
the extreme South, so God put it into the white world's minds 
to immigrate the Negro to and fro from the South to the North. 
And from the South to the North, on into France and Germany 
and elsewhere. 

Now in the Negro going to and fro through the world in 
this like manner. Knowledge has been increased unto them. So 
much so, until the world is stirred up over them, and have be- 
come dissatisfied and at the same time God had prepared the Hon. 
Marcus Garvey to come from over in Jamaca and got him ready 
to land upon American soil to do the work which he sent him to 
do. 

Right here I must say that God works in a mysterious way 
and his wonders to perform. He plants his foot steps in the sea 
and He rides upon the storm. 

For God knew he had placed Marcus Garvey upon the 
American shores there would not have been much good he could 
have done in working with his own people. 

Then He knew that he could not have placed Marcus Garvey 
in the South among those wicked people to do the work that he 
wants done. Therefore he sent the Negroes to and fro through 
the world to meet Marcus Garvey. Though they left as if they 
were going to war and to labor in various parts of the world. 
And at the same time sending Marcus Garvey to the American 
shores to meet them, and he has educated the Negro. So much 
so, since he has been on the American soil that you can go to 
the four corners of the world and hear talk about Marcus 
Garvey. And you can see the knowledge that has been increased 
unto them and yet through all of that men and women of our 
race, as well as other races are crying against ^Marcus Garvey 
as the legions of devils cried in the man against Jesus Christ, for 
when the legion of devils saw Jesus Christ coming they cried 
out saying, "Let us alone for we know who thou art. For thou 
hast come to torment us." But through all of that Jesus drove 
them out of the man. 

So likewise with Marcus Garvey. For the people are crying 
everywhere let us alone for we are satisfied with the condition 
which we are in. We don't need no government. What can we 
do with it if we had one? 

And yet some of them are dumb enough to think that we 
are trying to build a government upon a government and they 
know that can't be done. But the more they holler "let us alone" 
the more ]Marcus Garvey makes his appeal to the Negroes for 
their own government. So when they called him menace and 



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said he must go they meant that he must go to work and build 
us a government, and that's the reason why I am saying that 
we have the greatest leader in the world. 

For there haven't been a man in this day and time who 
have done the work and stood the test as jMarcus Garvey has 
done in so short a time and while for he has the hardest race 
under the sun to handle, and the Negro race, and nations 
operate their brains from Negro people. Therefore they know 
what step to take against a Negro to keep him down. The world 
knows that Marcus Garvey have taken upon his shoulders a hard 
job and he has done great work in a very short while. 

Just think of it, when he started in 1914 with this work 
he had only a few followers and his work has brought forth 
over six and a half million Negroes of the world. And any man 
that can get such a crowd of Negroes as that together from the 
four corners of the world, especially as hard as they are to 
handle, then I say that this Negro is the greatest leader in the 
world black or white. 

And not only has he continued with the Negroes going to 
and fro from the South to the North or from the North to the 
South, but he has caused Negroes to go to and from from 
continent to continent, therefore greater knowledge has been 
increased unto them, and I'm asking the Negro why should he 
not be proud of such a leader. 

Marcus Garvey stated to the Negro people of Pittsburgh on 
February 10, 1924 in his speech at the Central Baptist Church, 
that the book has been hid from the Negro and that he has 
found the book, and he has proved to me, and not only that but 
to the world, that he or somebody has found the book. For they 
have taught me that there are eighteen lost books of our Lord 
and Savior Jesus Christ and his works, but I never have believed 
it. This brings my attention to another passage of scripture. 

The reason that men love darkness rather than light, it 
is because their deeds are evil and then another passage of 
scripture says, all that is done in the dark shall be brought to 
light, and for the five years that Marcus Garvey has been en- 
gaged in this great work, he certainly has turned on a great 
light upon this dark wicked world. 

So yet I'm like Daniel, I want to see the end for I wonder 
what the end will be, but I only can write as far as it permits 
me, and yet the book will be sealed up. 

The scripture did not say how or who would bring this to 
the light, but it said it would be brought to light. So I have 
as much right to believe that the light is to come through 
Marcus Garvey, that anyone else have to deliver that it should 
come from any other source. 

For our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ did not leave us 
handicapped in the work that he gave us to do, for in His teach- 
ing He said that I have made the way so plain, that a way faring 



fool cannot error. Then He says again in His teaching, by all 
the works that I have done, greater wonders ye shall do. Which 
mans that we can do the same things that Christ done and 
even greater things than He done. So then why is it that we 
wonder at Marcus Garvey and his works, when there is space 
for such work to be done. 

But for this to be done, you must go to and fro ihrough the 
world and in that knowledge will be increased unto you. 

He also said, go ye therefore into all the world and teach 
all nations my commandments, and this is what Marcus Gar- 
vey is doing now. Dispute me and justify yourself. 

Second — Let us turn back to the inventions in which the 
writer so forcibly explained to us, I know I can't dig so deep 
into knowledge as the writer but there is some points in that I 
see, that must be brought out at this time as I'm writing upon 
this subject "Why I am Dissatisfied 

There has been many things achieved as the writer says, 
by the minds of men and they are yet being achieved and in that 
the Negro minds are being mingled into this affair, and yet none 
of this achievement is attached to his honor as being a skilled 
minded human being along with the human family. 

And as I look up these achievements it shows that all other 
races have all of the skillful minds and the Negro's mind is 
dumb, I mean as far as the Negro is concerned in having some 
of these achievements under his control as the other races have 
them today. That is to say that the Negro has invented a lot 
of these inventions. 

And why is it that he is not operating them since he is the 
master of it, in a great commercial world. 

Well, this is why, first he has no power or control here in 
this country or no other country where governments are estab- 
lished. Therefore they will not give him the right to operate 
them after he invents them because he has no land whatever to 
operate them on. 

It takes much land for a railroad, we all know, and also for 
many other industries and even if he could buy land for some 
of the inventions which he has gotten out, they would sell the 
land at such high prices and pay him such small amount for 
his labor until he scarcely could live, leaving out trying to 
operate his achievements in this great commercial world and it 
is known that the strong will always oppress the weak, and yet 
the Negroes has done wonderful since the emancipation, espec- 
cially the people who are in the South, who are yet under the 
great task of slavery and yet we havent done what we could 
have done. For it is hard to turn a Negro's mind down. The Ne- 
groes feel and has always felt that way. What other men have 
done men yet can do, and why he hasn't done any more than 
what he has is because he knows he hasn't got anywhere to 
operate the inventions after he gets it out and he don't feel 



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that he should always give to the other races and nations his 
brains so that they can live a happy life from it, while he do 
the work even from the inventions that he invented, even if 
they pay him anything for it, it's only a few dollars, and these 
are the things that make me dissatisfied. You take the first 
railroad that was invented, it was invented by a Negi'o, and 
after he invented it all that he can do is to work hard to keep 
it going. He can't even become an engineer and he is Jim Crowed 
on the thing he invented; then try to tell us that we are free 
citizens of this country and a lot of Negroes say the same thing, 
and they all see that people from foreign countries can come 
here and get jobs and hold positions that we Negroes cannot 
get. 

Now I'm not writing this because I think the world or even 
the United States don't know it. But I'm writing it for remem- 
brance of the born and unborn generations to come for this 
transaction that has been taken against the Negroes shall al- 
ways be remembered as long as the world stand. 

Even in the midst of all these inventions and all other 
political affairs they have kept them out of the Negroes' hands 
and was taught that this is the best that we can do for you, 
and too, the way the thing was fixed, it did look to us Negroes 
that it was the best, but at God's own set time he sent us a man 
to show us that there is better yet for the Negro people of the 
world. So as he is showing it to us we are after it. For we means 
to have everything that it takes to make a race or nation. Now 
we are not after revenge for revenge belongs to God but we 
are after just what belongs to us. Since the other nations have 
what belongs to them. 

Now at this time we are still asking God for the things 
v.'hich we cannot get ourselves, and that which we can get for 
ourselves. We are going after it. For a thought came to me 
when I was a little boy and I have watched it on down until 
now, that is, the wars have been in the United States of Amer- 
ica, in France, in England, Belgum, Japan, Turkey. Cuba, 
Mexico and Italy among all of these nations, and I have wonder- 
ed why was it that they never had any war in Africa. I see why 
now, because Africa was much right country, but ask me won't 
there be some trouble on that ground now and I can tell you 
ask the generations to come. 

To my mind that's why the other races and nations had 
the opportunity of knowing how to invent things for in going 
to and fro through the world. Knowledge was increased unto 
them therefore they had the opportunity of knowing the wealth 
of our motherland. And in finding the wealth there they knew 
that it would take something more than the strength of man 
to get it into this country and also into various countries. So at 
this time we have automobiles, airplanes, and railroads to sell 
to us at a high price. But I thank God for opening our eyes to 



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see these things before Africa was explored more than what it 
IS. So its up to us Negroes in this day and time to look out for 
our own welfare and to redeem our motherland— Africa, and 
there have all kinds of inventions among our selves. So wo all 
can see yet that the prophecy of Daniel haven't finished yet un- 
folding itself to us for the same things that it took for the peo- 
ple m those days to live it takes the same things for us to live 
today. 

So we will go further with the book of Daniel. 5. 6 and 7th 
verses. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, 
the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on 
that side of the bank of the river. 6 — And one said to the man 
clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river. How 
long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 — And I heard the 
man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, 
when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, 
and swore by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, 
times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to 
scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be 
finished. 

The question to us now, is how long shall it be to the end 
of these wonders? 

Verses 8, 9, and 10. 

8 — And I heard, but I understood not: then said I. my 
Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 — And he said. 
Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till 
the time of the end. 10 — Many shall be purified, and made white, 
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the 
wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 

If the world is not trying the Negroes now in bringing 
freedom and liberty and justice to ourselves and country then 
I would like to know, when will the trying time come? 

Verse 11 — And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall 
be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set 
up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 

Verses 12 and 13. Blessed is he that waiteth. and cometh 
to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 — P.;;^ 
go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and >;t; 1 
in thy lot at the end of the days. 

Now Daniel waiteth on the Lord and prophecied as Gud 
gave the prophecy unto him. He become great in the .sight of 
God and also in the sight of the people. He is now hiying at 
waiting for his lotted days which was appointed unto him. 

Just as Daniel served him time the same way we will have 
to serve ours for in the prophecy of Daniel we all can fully i^co 
that Daniel became great through giving service before he could 
fulfill the prophecy as he should. God allowed the wicked people 
to capture him and carry him to Babylon and put him among 
the strange and wicked people of that gi-eat city and country 



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and in being there with them he was able to do much great 
work for God and for mankind. So hkewise God allowed the 
wicked people to go over in our motherland — Africa, and capture 
our forefathers and mothers and brought them to this country 
as well as elsewhere and put them among strange and wicked 
people. So at this time, God has sent a Daniel, after us to take 
us back home to our motherland Africa in whose name is Marcus 
Garvey who is the greatest leader in the world today, and we 
Negroes ought to feel proud of him everywhere even in the four 
corners of the world for he has stood the test and is standing 
it yet. So let us turn to the Bible again and see if Marcus Gar- 
vey's name is mentioned. 1 Peter 5:13, reads as follows: The 
church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth 
you ; and so doeth ^larcus my son. 

Now you can read the whole chapter if you so desire, but 
especially the 13th verse. 

So when it comes to this I am satisfied then I will give my 
life for this man. For the Bible talks about him and his great 
works that he is doing and that's why I advise the members of 
the U. N I A. everywhere and also to the four hundred 
million Negroes of the world to stick to its Constitution and its 
laws. 



Rev. Z. D. Green Adjures U. N. I. A. to Stick to the Constitution 
and Grow Stronger And Better In Every Way. 

Editor Pittsburgh American, 

Sir: 

You wall agree with me when I say that we are engaged in 
a great work to bring freedom, liberty and justice to our race 
and country and we ought to feel prouder to-day of our condi- 
tion than ever before, for to-day we have a view of what we want 
and what we must have. Heretofore, we didn't know what w^e 
wanted, and therefore, we did not seek for it and they all told us 
that it wasn't any use, but our President-General and the Pro- 
visional President of Africa saw the needs through the hands 
of God of the Negroes all over the world. Yet. knowing the task 
that it would take to bring the Negroes together and make them 
a nation, he took upon his shoulders a work for Negroes that 
no other man, black of white, would attempt. 

This man, Marcus Garvey. in 1014, in Jamacia, either by him- 
self or with the help of a few others, drew up a constitution for 
Negroes which would be our guide in an organization that was 
to be world-wide, and when he came to the United States we 
helped him to frame more laws. When he started he stood in New 
York on boxes and preached the Universal Negro Improvement 



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Association with only thirteen followers, but he continued to 
preach until now he has over 6.000.000 members of the Universal 
Negro Improvement Association. At the same time, while Kcttinj? 
a goodly number to work with him. he picked up also his enemy. 
This reminds me of Jesus Christ when He was in the world. He 
had only a few followers with Him, and among that few He be- 
gan with. He picked up His enemv and His enemy followod Him 
until death and betrayed Him. Marcus Garvey did likewise; he 
picked up his enemy. 

Anguis in Herba 

When Garvey started with the Negro Improvement Associa- 
tion a few so-called wise Negroes saw that he had an organization 
that was worth while, therefore they came to him with deceit, 
for they were frauds just like a snake. No doubt IMr. Garvey 
talked with them on some facts, but upon the facts that he gave 
them they had him to know that they were going to stand by 
him no matter what happened. And when they began to get warm 
they too commenced to crawl and stretch themselves to determine 
whether or not they were sufficiently warm enough or able to 
do the evil that they had desired to do. They had followed him, 
they have done everything that they could do to him. shot him, 
tried to besmirch his character, tried to break down his energy 
and his power and his nerve with which he was to bring about 
liberty and freedom for the Negro race, and have continued with 
him until today they have caused him to be in the Tombs. And 
they think that because they have him in the Tombs the Negro 
Improvement Association is getting weaker; it is stronger today 
than ever before. Garvey is not the only one that has to go to 
the Tombs or to prison for anything or in any form, for there 
are thousands and thousands that have to suffer likewise. Today, 
if I could, and they would grant it to me, I would leave Pitts- 
burgh, go to New York and take the place of Mr Garvey in the 
Tombs and stay in prison for five years or longer if necessary 
and let him take my place and give to the world the thing that 
he desires to give to the people. But since I cannot, I am going 
to stay out here and do my bit; and if it is necessary for me on 
account of the truth to go to the Tombs or any other place of 
punishment I am willing to go just as he has done. INIr. G.irvey 
made a statement through the Negro World on July 7 in the 
fourth paragraph saying that the enemy is still at work to dis- 
courage you. I agree that that is true, but I here are some Ne- 
groes in the Negro Improvement Association that no one can 
discourage, though hell itself will come upon them, for I myself 
have no fear at all. 

So I would like to have him know that some of us know that 
the enemy is more at work now than ever before. The enemy is 
trying to sneak upon you on every hand, he will come to Liberty 



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Hall to hear what you have to say. He hasn't got nerve enough 
to talk but will meet you on the street or come to your home or 
at your work place and take advantage of you if j'ou are weak 
enough to let him do so. 

Hon. Marcus Garvey is asking us to be loyal, for he says 
we can do him more good by being so than we can in any other 
way. Now in doing this we will have to obey the laws which are 
laid dovv-n for us. It is being said throughout the country that 
some of the laws ought to be changed, but I want to tell you that 
whether the laws be changed or not they are there, and we should 
go by them, and stop fighting each other and the laws and get 
together and get strength so we can gain ground enough so that 
we can say that we are on the solid. Then, after we do this, we 
can take the wrong and make it right, and put it with the right 
that we have already, and it will make us stronger and better 
people. At present we have no time to fight the constitution of 
the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Therefore I am 
offering a resolution that I think should be paid to this noted 
man, Marcus Garvey, for his work and for his service that he 
has rendered and is rendering now; as I only know of one that 
did what he is doing now, and that is Jesus, Christ Himself. 
Yours, etc.. 



To the women of my race I will not miss the women in this 
book, at this time as I told them in the first part of the book 
No. 1, that I would see them later. So I am not writing to give 
you all yours, for we as Negroes are at work to build up a race 
nationhood among ourselves and we can't do it without you all, 
for you all must be in it and to be in it you must first know your 
part as God has given it to you. 

Now let us go back to creation when God made man. and 
gave him you as a heli)-mate, and see what he says to them 
after they had broken the law that He gave to them. Gen. 1 :26, 
And God Said, Let us make man in our own image, after our 
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
earth. 

Gen. 2:18. And the Lord God said, It is not good that' the 
man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. 

Verses 21, 22. and 23. 

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon /.dam 
and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh 
instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from 
man.made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And 
Adam said. This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; 
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. 

Gen. 3:1-21. Now the serpant was more subtile than any 



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besst of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said 
unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every 
tree of the garden? 

And the woman said unto the serpent. We may eat of the 
fruit of the trees of the garden: 

But of the fruit of the true which is in the midst of the 
garden, God hath said. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye 
touch it, least ye die. 

And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely 
die: 

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then 
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good 
and evil. 

A.nd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 
and that it v/as pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired 
to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and 
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 

And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that 
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made 
themselves aprons. 

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the 
garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid them- 
selves from the presence of the Lorr' God amongst the trees of 
the garden. 

And the Lord God called j-'nto Adam and said unto him, 
Where art thou? 

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was 
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 

And he said, Who told thee that thou was naked, Hast thou 
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded three that thou should- 
est not eat? 

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be 
with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 

And the Lord God said unto the woman. What is this that 
thou hast done? And the woman said. The serpent beguiled me, 
and I did eat. 

And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast 
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast 
of the field; upon thy belly shalt thy go, and dust shall thy eat 
all the days of thy life: 

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and 
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and 
thou shalt bruise his heel. 

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow 
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: 
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over 

thee. 

And unto Adam he said. Because thou has barkened unto 
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I com- 



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manded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat it: cursed is the ground 
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy 
life; 

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and 
thou shalt eat the herb of the field: 

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou re- 
turn unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust 
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the 
mother of all living. 

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord make coats of 
skins, and clothed them. 

They tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the 
world in which it is true. And since the woman is the mother 
of all living, that shows that she has a great part in the world 
to play. As I stated before that we are now building a race na- 
tionhood and a government of our own. 

Every man and woman must know the part they must 
play in building it, and also after it is built. 

Since you are our help meet you are to stay in the home and 
give birth and raise children and teach them in the way they 
should be taught. 

Now to do this, you will have to be a real woman, and be 
true to a mother's duty along all lines. You must teach your 
children to do right, and honor your men and women, the first 
of all notwithstanding to honor all men and stop telling them 
that they are not anything and never was nothing and never will 
be nothing. Stop crushing your child's mind like that. 

If you don't know, that is the reason we haven't got any- 
more men in our race today of a standard, because the white 
folks tell us that we are not anything. There is no reason why 
we should tell our children so for at this late hour we are build- 
ing up a race and a nation among ourselves. And to do this, you 
all must play your part as woman for we need women who will 
stand upon her womanhood as well as we need men to stand as 
men, and give to these children what belongs to them, for we 
are responsible for them, and if we don't do for them what we 
ought to do, there ain't no else going to do. So it is absolutely 
up to us Negro men and women to train these children in the 
way that they should go and that is in the way that God would 
have them go. And to do that, we must first be right ourselves 
for I find in reading the Bible that you arc great in the world 
among men. And if you all would stand up like a woman should, 
and as God would have you do, then races and nations would 
stand and kingdoms or governments would not be so easy to 
fall. For every kingdom or government that was built I find that 
the woman were there and everytime it fell she was the cause 
of it falling. So I'm pleading to you all now. in the name of God 
and His dear Son; let us start right and stay that way. If we 



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g-et rig-ht then it will be some chance of us cndinK right for I 
am determined to play my part as a man in this work, and vou 
all have a better chance to raise or train your children than our 
loreparents had, yet some of you who have them let thorn raise 
themselves and they won't respect you or no one else. You 
women have the first chance at a child in the way of raising 
it and you ought to play your part as a woman alon^ these lines, 
for no man is greater than his woman. Therefore, if you all will 
respect yourselves then you can demand respect from your men 
and other races as well. And yet we have as good a women in 
our race as it is in any other race or nation ; but still I'm dis- 
satisfied because we are not what we ought to be as a race of 
people, for we can be improved in many ways and we must 
make an improvement on ourselves as a race of people, and by 
doing this we can improve ourselves in raising or training our 
children. 

When should we begin to train our children? The child 
should begin training twenty years before it is born into the 
world — that is to say, if the father and mother will keep them- 
selves trained from their youth then it wouldn't be so hard to 
train the child after it is born. For in many ways the child 
training have been left undone and these are some of the ways: 
destinct, getting drunk off of whisky or wines and other strong 
drinks, dipping snuff, chewing tobacco, staying out late at night 
without a cause, staying in houses with men and they are not 
your husbands and using all kinds of language in front of them. 
For when the child see or hear these things, he or she, it is two 
to one that they don't do the same thing now. 

I am talking to both father and mother, but especially to 
the mothers, because they have the first chance at the child 
after it is born. 

This is what the U N. I A. stands for. Now remember 
that I said that you all are great in the world among men. in 
which I will show you all as I continue to write, and also we will 
go to the book of Revelation and quote a few words of what a 
writer says after quoting the Scripture and see what it says 
about you all, for in it great things are said, and even in it I 
find things that causes me to be dissatisfied. For you women 
are the cause of the world being stirred up today because of 
your greatness. For you have caused many men to live and 
3^ou have caused many men to die; you have caused men to build 
many cities, and you are the cause of many cities falling. You 
are the cause of men not sleeping today as they should, because 
of the kingdom and governments in which they hold. That's why 
governments are trying to keep us down so as to protect their 
women. 

So as I'm still pleading to the women of my race, stand up 
like a woman should and lets be a real good race and a strong 
natio^ of people to God and to the world, for we can do it and 



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we will do it if we try, for God has sent to us a real leader and 
a true leader: and I believe if he do what he tells us to do there 
will be no reason why we should not have good success in build- 
ing a government and making us a strong nation of people. 

This is too great a subject for a small man as I, but since it 
is assigned to my hand to do it, I am not afraid of it, for the 
more I WTite the more I see to write. 

Women this is a serious time with us and also with the 
human family at large. Now you may not believe me but watch 
the signs of time. If we don't mind we all will be found wanting, 
and this depends largely upon you all as a woman, to play your 
part in this work. I am calling upon you all at this particular 
time because I am writing concerning you all and these children 
but the more I write on this subject the more I become to be 
dissatisfied for great is the earih, for I find that it is your 
Savior and Reaper for the earth has brought forth trees and 
vines, etc.. to hide the woman from that old dragon when he 
persue after her and the serpent cast out of his mouth water, 
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried 
away off. The flood and the earth helped the woman. The earth 
opened her mouth and swallowed the water and saved her life. 

Now I did not know that a woman was so great in the 
world, not until I began to write upon this book and to study 
the Word of God. 

Now let us go to the Bible although I will not go to the 
book of Jobe and Solomon and the many other books I could 
mention, but go and search the book of Revelation. 

Rev. 12:1, 2 and 3. 1 — And there appeared a great wonder 
in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun. and the moon under 
her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 — And 
she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pain to be 
delivered. 3 — And there appeared another wonder in heaven; 
and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten 
horns, and seven crowns upon his head. 

So said a writer, a woman: *'A corrupt woman is used to 
represent an apostrate or corrupt church." Eze. 23:2-4. 

Rev. 17 :3, 6, 15, and 18. By parting of reason a pure woman, 
as in this instance, would represent the true church. The sun. 
the light and glory of the gospel dispensation. 

The Moon, the Mosaic dispensation. As the moon shines 
from a borrowed light derived from the sun, so the former dis- 
pensation shone with a light borrowed from the present. There 
they had the type and shadow; here we have the antitype and 
substance: a crown of twelve start, the twelve apostles; a great 
red dragon, pagan Rome (see under verses 4 and 4). 

Verse 4 — And his tail drew the third part of the Stars of 
heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood 
before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to 
devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 — And she brought 



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forth a man-child, who was to rule all nation, with a rod of iron: 
and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 — 
And the woman fled into the wilderncs.s, where .she had a place 
prepar'^d of God. that they .should feed her there a thousanrl 
two hundred years and three score days. 7 — And there was war 
in heaven: Michel and his anj^els fought against the dragon; 
and the dragon fought and hi;-, angels, 8 — And prevailed not. 
neither was there peace found anymore in heaven. 9 — And tho 
great dragon was cast out. that old serpent called devil, and 
satan, which deceiveth the whole world: He was cast out into 
the earth and his angels was cast out with him. 

10 — And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. Now is come 
Salvation, and Strength and the kingdom of our God, and the 
power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is ca.st 
down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 — 
And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the 
word of their testimony, and loved not their lives unto the 
death. 12 — Therefore rejoice, ye Heaven and ye that dwell in 
them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the .sea: for 
the devil is ccme down to you: having great wrath because he 
know^eth that he hath but a short time. 

Verse 13 — And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto 
the earth, he pursued the woman, w^hich brought forth the man- 
child. 14 — And to the woman were given two wings of a great 
Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 
where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, 
from the face of the serpent. lo^And the serpent cast out of 
his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause 
her to be carried away of the flood. 16 — And the earth helped 
the woman, and the earth opened hei' mouth and swallowed up 
the flood which the dragon cast out o^ his mouth. 

17 — And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to 
make war with the remnant of her seed, which kept the com- 
mandments of God. and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 

Now John wrote as God revealed it, unto him and m that 
he gave us the past tense, the present tense and the future 
tense. And in reading the past tense we see how races and na- 
tions lived, and also we see how they were destroyed, and how 
the kingdoms and governments were built and how the kuigdoms 
and governments were destroyed. And in the present tense we 
all see just how we stand. For at present the whole world is 
dissatisfied because of its own sin, and if the people don't stop 
and consider God and his word the future wdl be worse than 
the past or present tense. If we don't make a change. »"« this 
depends largely upon you women as I said before, for the hand 
that rocks the cradle is the one that rules the world. Now 1 m 
not trying to write a Bible but I am only trying to show to you 
all and also to the world why is it that I'm dis.sati.shed. And 
when I say that I am dissatisfied I mean that I am dissatisfied 



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for there is something wrong about this thing, and it is up to 
us Negroes to find it, and that's why I'm shoving this pen as I 
am, because we are going to find it before we stop. 

Now many people may not Hke this, but we are not going 
by likes at this time, but justice and nothing else but justice. 
For that is the reason why there is dissatisfaction today, be- 
cause of the injustice towards we Negroes. Now just one more 
thought before I lay down my pen for this time. 

Man is God's glory, the woman is man's glorj', and the wo- 
man's hair is her glory therefore since she is the mother of all 
living, it would be a nice thing if she would stop using those hot 
tongs on her head to straighten out her hair, for this is where 
the five senses lie of all mankind, for the heat that comes from 
the tongs comes in contact with the five senses and make them 
weaker minded, and a lot of times it interfers with a child's mind 
after it i.s born, and, in otherwords, God fixed it like he wanted 
it. Any other way or form, he would have done it, and it goes 
on to show that she is not satisfied with the way he has fixed it. 
Now don't think that I am scorning you all for I am not. 
But I am only telling you all the truth, and I'm at this time in 
the name of our Creator and Maker of heaven and earth, call- 
ing upon you women to play your part in this work, for we are 
building a nation for the people of our race. 



Now what are you going to write next. Mr. Green? I may 
not write like angels or smooth it up like men but I can tell 
the world how we Negroes are treated by the cruel white men. 
But I can see a change coming through the powerful hands of 
God to take us out of misery into the land of our own, and after 
we get there we can sing the song of Moses in the land and praise 
my God Just as I am. And it may be in that hour we all will be 
satisfied. 

I went to Washington. D. C., in 1921, I went into the 
capitol and was shown many beauties within but not a single 
office was shown me that was held by a Negro playing his part 
in the political game. I went from there to the White House, 
where the President stays, where the nations of the world 
bring their troubles to this particular place. I went from there 
to the patent office, and many inventions did I see with the 
names written thereon as if all were done by white men, but 
I'm sure that they know that I knew better. If they don't, just 
wait and see. For we're going back to Africa and build an 
empire of our own, and in the same like manner will the inven- 
tions be shown. 

So I'm saying to all oi the Negroes who have this kind of 
brains. Make your inventions and keep them on hand so that you 
will have a patent office — in your motherland. For on December 
12, 1923 our Secretary General and three others went across 



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the sea to draw out plans for our jjfovernment, which wo now 
need. For they were successful in getting there, and he said I'm 
home at last and how happy I am. 

They were sucessful in getting out the plans and they were 
on their return back to the American lands. His health was good 
until he got to Europe. But after leaving Europe he was struck 
with an attack of pneumonia and in the attack he was called to 
the great beyond. 

Though Poston is gone, and yet he is here. Though his body 
is lying moldering in the clay and his soul to Him who giveth. 
But his work and spirit shall always be with us. And in that R. 
L. Poston shall ever live. 

Now who will be found to take his place, that will go to work 

as he done to protect his race, 
Now Poston wasn't fiery nor was he in haste, 
But what Poston done was right in his place. 
He kept up will all of the moneys right to the dot. 
So he left we Negroes right on the spot. 

So don't think this subject is ended for it is not. 




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